Daniel,
Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot@ripe.net> writes:
- If this person only has a few hosts, then it is probably a good idea to ask him to renumber once he connects to the Internet. I don't believe that renumbering 3 PC's would be that much of a problem. 1597 might be useful after all..
This sums up my personal opinion.
Great, quite along my personal opinion, but we need a consistent approach among all Local IRs.
If they are not going to connect immediately, then let them use private address space and renumber their 3 hosts later.
If they are going to connect immediately, let the service provider registry assign numbers.
Sure.
I know of cases where they subnet part of the SP space. Soon - when we have a classless allocation registry, this can even be registered.
The world, now classless, might have /30s and /29s all over the place. I do not want to think of /32s. This gives us a neat "tool" to make sure that everybody has address space assigned to her or him that fits the needs. Looking into my cristal ball (sorry, I sound like somebody else :-) ), I see a world in which the bakery on the corner of the street has a brand new /28 assigned to his one-man company by a ISP he selected. After a few month the guy making bread discovers there is an ISP for the bakery branch in his city and he wants to switch over to the bakery-ISP. This ISP welcomes his new customer with open arms and announces this /28 to the Internet at large. Remember, this /28 is from the first ISP in this story. Think of what this will do to the efficiency of CIDR... Bottom line of this story is that there needs to be a mechanism in place that forces the bakery to renumber to a CIDR range of his new service provider. For the bakery with a /28 this is not too complex, but what about this large company with a /15? __ Erik-Jan.