past vs future use

Sigh!  relevant points.

evidently allocation and assignment of ip numbers are different.
evidently sect 3.1 is not intended to apply to isps.

now that I have begun to look a little more closely at this stuff, it is
NOT at all as clear as I would have hoped.

I hope that we will begin to have a discussion of some of these issues
over the next few days.  what's the address of pagn kim?  I am very
interested in your and the arin board and jon postels views on a range of
procedural issues.


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On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Justin W. Newton wrote:
> 
> > The current Internic allocation policy appears to be that you need to
> > utilize 32 Class C's worth of address space effectively before they will
> > assign you a /19 address block.  As it seems that a /19 is currently the
> 
> That's not the impression I get from rfc2050.
> 
> [direct quote from the rfc]
> ---
> 3.1  Common Registry Requirements
> 
>    Because the number of available IP addresses on the Internet is
>    limited, the utilization rate of address space will be a key factor
>    in network number assignment.  Therefore, in the best interest of the
>    Internet as a whole, specific guidelines have been created to govern
>    the assignment of addresses based on utilization rates.
> 
>    Although topological issues may make exceptions necessary, the basic
>    criteria that should be met to receive network numbers are listed
>    below:
> 
>                 25% immediate utilization rate
>                 50% utilization  rate within 1 year
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> Based on this, I would think an ISP that is, or is about to be, multihomed
> and is currently completley (and efficiently) using at least a /21 worth
> of IP's and expects to fully utilize a /20 in about 1 year _should_ be
> able to apply for and receive their very own /19. 
> 
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