I thought this might be of mild interest.
- paul
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Subject: Protocol Action: INTERNET REGISTRY IP ALLOCATION GUIDELINES to BCP
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:51:08 -0400
X-Orig-Sender: scoya@ietf.orgThe IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "INTERNET REGISTRY IP
ALLOCATION GUIDELINES" <draft-hubbard-registry-guidelines-05.txt> for
publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. This document is the
product of the CIDR Deployment Working Group. The IESG contact
persons are Scott Bradner and Michael O'Dell.Technical Summary
This document describes the registry system for the distribution of
globally unique Internet address space and registry operations.
Particularly this document describes the rules and guidelines
governing the distribution of this address space while keeping in mind
the requirements of IP address conservation and the need to distribute
globally unique Internet addresses in a hierarchical manner,
permitting the routing scalability of the addresses."Conservation" and "Routability" are often conflicting goals. These
goals may sometimes be in conflict with the interests of individual
end-users or Internet service providers. Careful analysis and
judgement is necessary in each individual case to find an appropriate
compromise.This document replaces RFC 1466, with all the guidelines and
procedures updated and modified in the light of experience.This document can be considered the base set of operational guidelines
in use by all registries. Additional guidelines may be imposed by a
particular registry as appropriate.Working Group Summary
The working group strongly supported the publication of this document.
A text was added to the document during IESG review on the advice
of a legal review of anti-trust issues.Protocol Quality
This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Scott Bradner and Mike
O'Dell.NOTE TO RFC EDITOR:
Please include the following text as an IESG Note:
By approving this document as a Best Current Practice,the IESG asserts
its belief that this policy described herein is an accurate
representation of the current practice of the IP address registries
with respect to address assignment. This does not constitute
endorsement or recommendation of this policy by the IESG. The IESG
will reevaluate its approval of this document in December 1997 taking
into consideration the results of the discussions that will be take
place in the IRE Working Group between now and then.
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