At 21:59 24/06/01, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:18:10 -0400 RJ Atkinson wrote:
24.0/8 is the "cable block". ARIN normally allocates residential cable modem subnets out of this space. Nearly all the cable operators have one slice or another from this block. Nearly all North American cable modems users have address space in this block. Cable modems themselves are nearly always numbered in 10.0/8.
Perhaps "a cable modem block"? We tell ARIN we need networks for cable modems and have never gotten an allocation from this block.
No, "The Cable Block" is correct parlance. Jon Postel himself designated it as such in the mid/late 90s. It is the only block that consists *entirely* of cable modem allocations. However, you must have been late to the party. 24/8 appears (not certain) to be fully allocated, so later allocations seem to be coming from other address blocks. Ran