[address-policy-wg] AfriNIC Transition: IPv4 allocation Policy change

Gertp and all,

Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:12:35PM +0100, Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote:
> > Proposed change:
> >
> > * Minimum allocation: The minimum allocation for African members of
> > RIPE NCC should be changed from /21 to /22.
>
> Hmmm, what's the rationale behind being *so* conservative in doing
> allocations?  A /21 is already pretty small.

  I agree personally.  A /21 if far too small for a minimum.  However I
believe it is motivated by the inadequacies of CIDR, which needs fixing,
and some SIG's that are not obvious in their motivations...

>
>
> Gert Doering
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