Re: [44net] address block assignments for groups

Ah. Sounds like we're on the same page. -----Original Message----- From: 44net-bounces+n6mef=mefox.org(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu [mailto:44net-bounces+n6mef=mefox.org@hamradio.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Joy Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 1:02 PM To: AMPRNet working group Subject: Re: [44net] address block assignments for groups 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