BBN's class As [was RE: Address allocation stats]

["Kent W. England" <kwe () 6SigmaNets com>]

At 10:15 AM 6/7/96 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote:
> I couldn't help but notice how much address space BBN has:
>
> > 4 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (SATNET)
> > 8 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBNCCNET), listed as "temp" since 1992
> > 46 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.  (NET-BBNNET)
>
> It would be nice if they (BBN-Planet) would renumber into a much smaller
> block.  As one of their customers who renumbered to get a larger block, I
> find it hypocritical that they are asking their customers to renumber when
> they have not done it themselves.
>
> Bob
Perhaps BBN is waiting for the Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-cidrd-mktbased-alloc-00.txt> to become an RFC.  
[Come to PIARA BOF at IETF to discuss.]

If so, these As could be worth millions of $. Best to let them alone for now.

--Kent

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