9. Acknowledgments

This document borrows heavily from various postings on various mailing lists. Special thanks to Noel Chiappa, Dennis Ferguson, Eric Fleischman, Geoff Huston, and Jon Postel whose postings were used in this document.

Most of the Section 5.3 was contributed by Curtis Villamizar. The Security section was contributed by Ran Atkinson.

Many thanks to Scott Bradner, Randy Bush, Brian Carpenter, Noel Chiappa, David Conrad, John Curran, Sean Doran, Dorian Kim, Thomas Narten, Andrew Partan, Dave Piscitello, Simon Poole, Curtis Villamizar, and Nicolas Williams for their review, comments, and contributions to this document.

Finally, we like to thank all the members of the CIDR Working Group for their review and comments.