24 Jun
2013
24 Jun
'13
3:01 a.m.
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 08:49:55 -0700, "Michael Fox - N6MEF"
<n6mef(a)mefox.org> wrote:
When you apply for a block from ARIN, you have to
justify the size. It's
reasonable to verify that a certain size is needed. For example, do you
really need a /24? Or are you asking for that because you don't want to
have to figure out the addresses. 44/8 has the room so I think we shouldn't
be onerous about how to justify the block. But I do think "any" size,
without a reasonable justification, is not a responsible way to go.
I think you misconstrued my use of the word "any". Although I consider
my 44.18/16 block to be very sparsely populated in proportion to its
geographic area I wasn't advocating giving out /24s without some kind
of justification. In the cases of San Bernardino city and county
emergency response networks there was reason to believe a /24 was
justified, assuming some kind of repeater network or specialized units
to be distributed by the organizations. This gave the organization
autonomous authority over their address space without having to come
to me for every little change to their system.
In the case of a club, I'd probably want to know how many active
members they have and assign a /26 or /25 to allow for expansion.
Following my subnets-down allocation scheme I can keep hosts
contiguous within a subnet and if one outgrows its space, allocate the
adjacent subnet and/or expand the mask to fit with minimal impact to
routing tables.
As it stands, Eric is in my area and we've worked together in the past
so I thought he deserved a response from me.
--
Geoff Joy - ke6qh -
AmprNet IP Address Coordinator for San Bernardino & Riverside Counties.
geoff(a)windomeister.com