On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
I would also be very happy if RIPE would charge enough money to people wanting to do this to make them consider whether they really need it.
Agreed.. but unfortunately, RIRs operate (typically) on a cost-recovery basis.. FWIW, I think it makes perfect sense to give each of these their own /32. Arguments about conservation are IMHO bogus when we're talking about one-in-4-billion allocations. That allows people to filter just fine, has better failure modes (as Joao pointed out), and does not have the concern Iljitsch noted. I guess the folks opposed to using /32's are mainly the ones which want to inject their own (non-related) /48's and would like the operators to drop the "we don't accept anything past /32 or /35 unless very well justified" filters. Which are a good thing, but out of scope for discussion on this list. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings