Christian, You can be damned skippy that if we had a legacy B, I wouldn't be returning it any time soon. It's the part about NOT paying arin fees that makes it most attractive. If ARIN had a policy like "If you return your legacy B and only need a /19, /18, 17, we'll simply trade -- no fees -- no harm -- no foul" I think that more people would be returning unused address space. As it stands, there is really no tangible incentive and VERY tangible penalties for doing so. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc On Tue, 8 May 2001, Christian Kratzer wrote:
Stephen, you neglected to look at the big picture. The "organization" has the /16 but has sites spread out all over the planet and has assigned /24's to them. Additionally, they connect into the global net via diverse providers.
why do they have a /16 then ???
As good net citicens they should get their /whatever they need at each location from their respective providers.
If they can't even afford to buy a decent backbone to connect their sites they have no need whatsoever for their own /16.
Please rtfm on rf1918 addressing for internal use
People like that are polluting the global routing tables with unnecessar yannouncements....
Greetings Christian
-- TopLink Internet Services GmbH ck@171.2.195.in-addr.arpa Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7032 2701-0 Fax: +49 7032 2701-19 FreeBSD spoken here!