On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, David R. Conrad wrote:
I don't see the point. If you are going to propose using a reserved class A, why not use net 10?
The /16 would be reserved but not actually used. Then after a probationary period if the ISP shows that they deserve the /16, then they get to use it. If not, they lose it and have to continue running their NAT indefinitely. The /16's are reserved out of the old Class A space and nobody is 100% sure that those addresses can be safely sliced and diced into longer prefixes than /8. But this proposal ensures that when a /16 is released, the ISP already has a NAT system in place and if we find out that terrible things happen, they can just hook their NAT back up. If it turns out that the old Class A is simply not globally usable, we can still allocate it to companies to use behind a NAT so that only the ISP's and NSP's need to deal with the mess on the global side. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com