David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> writes:
I'm curious: when HP acquired the assets of Compaq (or when Compaq acquired the assets of Digital), is it your position that HP (or Compaq) "met the same criteria as if they were requesting an IP address directly from the IR." for 16.0.0.0/8?
since i was the guy to do the initial carving on 16.0.0.0/8 i pondered this at the time of the CPQ and HP acquisitions. my research revealed that the network that DEC had numbered using 16.0.0.0/8 was still in existence and had been part of the acquisition process. there's an interesting question as to whether the acquirer should have had to renumber, since the acquirer had their own /8 and probably had the ability to contain both the old and new networks in the same /8. there's another interesting question as to whether either DEC or HP could have qualified for a /8 under current rules, since the basis for these (pre-RIR) allocations was that they needed more than a /16 and these were the days before CIDR. (at the time i received the /8 allocation at DEC, we had a half dozen /16's several dozen /24's that we wanted to stop using because we worried about the size of the global routing table... what whacky kids we all were. hint: i had hair back then.) -- Paul Vixie KI6YSY