Just to be technically correct: Even if you could, you wouldn't do that with 1/8 and 2/8: will need to pair up 2/8 with 3/8!
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Richard Barnes <richard.bar...@gmail.com>wrote: > To echo and earlier post, what's the operational importance of > assigning adjacent /8s? Are you hoping to aggregate them into a /7? > --Richard > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:16 AM, William Allen Simpson > <william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nick Hilliard wrote: > >> > >> On 22/01/2010 13:54, William Allen Simpson wrote: > >>> > >>> Why not 36 & 37? > >> > >> Random selection to ensure that no RIR can accuse IANA of bias. See > >> David's previous post: > >> > >> http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/ > >> > > Because relying on a blog post for policy really meets everybody's > > definition of rationality.... :-( > > > > If you're assigning 2 at the same time, they should be adjacent. > > > > The dribbles here and there policy never was particularly satisfying, > > because it assumes that this was all temporary until the widespread > > deployment of IPv6. > > > > > >
