On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Simon Skals wrote:
Being an IP bloke with a conscience, I would personally hate to provide our regular home users with /29's. However, should our competitors start doing this, we would of course have to respond. It would be a shame, however, if the commercial struggles should end up leading to a swift exhaustion of IPv4 space.
Note that there are technologies available for always-on where you "only" need one IP-address per customer, not a /29-subnet. It is still routed, and they have no layer 2 connectivity. This works fine with eg ADSL. Of course, some network scenarios require a subnet. But it is up to every operator to decide what technology to use. RIPE could regulate this by refusing to allocate addresses for /29-technologies for residential usage. Just like they did in the past with allocating address space for WWW-hosting, in favor of IP-less virtual hosting. -- Janne ------------- Elcom ------------- Network Operations Center --------- Jan-Erik Eriksson mailto: jee@alcom.aland.fi Elcom phone: +358 18 23500 PB 233, Torggatan 10 fax: +358 18 14643 FIN-22100 Mariehamn URL: http://www.alcom.aland.fi