On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 21:54:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > > When ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers or one of its clients, > > or any other IANA RIR) assigns a /8, or /16 number and registers a new > > domain name is there any rules, policy or usual practice in the > > assignment that gives a hint to the nature of the entity that has > > received a certain address? At what time the prefix could be used to tell the size of the allocation. The prefix determined whether the allocation was a class A, B or C (which correspond to /8, 16 and /24 respectively). Attempts were made to keep similar prefixes in the same area to keep routing table sizes down. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
