19 May
1995
19 May
'95
6:07 p.m.
As an aside, is anyone else besides Sprint behind this /18 model?
The hard core /18 model ("we won't accept prefixes greater than length 18") is untenable and throws out one of CIDR's features. It does not allow for a time period where a customer is migrating from provider A to provider B and will have end systems living within both provider based prefixes at any instant during the migration. The user community should not be forced into flash cuts, and the providers can make the needed overlap period of time work for bounded time frames. At a minimum, the model needs to be /18+E (E==entropy due to customer migrations). peter