RE: IP Addresses Do Not Wear Out

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net>]

On Monday, April 13, 1998 1:40 PM, Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com] wrote:
@But I still assert that many companies who ony want a single portable
@and routable /24 ever will apply for /19s as ISPs under your proposal.
@

If you START by first figuring out how many routing table entries
you are willing to tolerate, then you can quickly decide what the
average first-allocation, one-size-fits-all, block size will be. Some
seem to think it is a /19. I believe that came from RIPE originally.

Having all that space sitting idle on the shelf at USC/ISI (IANA)
does no one any good and in fact it hurts the system. Just because
you have this fear that you are going to walk into Jon Postel's
office in a few years and see an empty shelf and panic, does not
mean that the whole world should suffer under these absurb policies.

In a system with an active recycling and reclamation program, you
will likely pick up your block as it comes back from the field with
some proper holding period to allow DNS TTLs to expire. You do
not need to keep checking to see if Jon Postel has a fist full of
IP addresses ready to grease your next need. Those are the old
days, in the new age you would get your IP addresses from the
market place.

All we have to do is get them out of Jon Postel's tight fist and
into the market place. That will happen soon. Real soon...
The U.S. Government will see to that...
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI