
Just to be technically correct: Even if you could, you wouldn't do that with 1/8 and 2/8: will need to pair up 2/8 with 3/8! On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>wrote:
To echo and earlier post, what's the operational importance of assigning adjacent /8s? Are you hoping to aggregate them into a /7? --Richard
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:16 AM, William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 22/01/2010 13:54, William Allen Simpson wrote:
Why not 36 & 37?
Random selection to ensure that no RIR can accuse IANA of bias. See David's previous post:
http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
Because relying on a blog post for policy really meets everybody's definition of rationality.... :-(
If you're assigning 2 at the same time, they should be adjacent.
The dribbles here and there policy never was particularly satisfying, because it assumes that this was all temporary until the widespread deployment of IPv6.