peter@goshawk.lanl.gov writes: * * Bill, * * You should probably forward your suggestion for encouraging people to get * their addresses from CIDR blocks to the NIC and to the IANA. We feel the same way. We delegate maximum of 1 block of 256 class Cs at a time to service providers and other registries. We keep more blocks reserved for them based on their 2 year class C usage estimate, but do not hand all these over at once. If registries get requests for large amounts of address space (typically 256 Class Cs or more) they usually send the customer directly to us, or we provide an extra block to the registry to fulfill the customer's request, not necessarily in the "bigger" supernet block of the provider. I think in the US, a good interaction between the service providers and IANA/NIC could result in a similar scheme, which has worked quite well in Europe so far. -Marten