Hi, On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:13:03PM +0100, Stephen Burley wrote:
Ok the proposal. [..]
I can understand your needs, and your proposal is a way to tackle it. The problems do not only arise on "multinational scale", though. We're a small-to-medium ISP/LIR (with only about 1.5 /16's), and we're also facing the fact that we'd like to do better hierarchical routing, facing a structure of independent re-sellers that again have their own re-sellers, all of them getting their IP addresses from us. So what I could imagine is a less formal organization structure without a "MIR" - but permit LIRs, under certain circumstances, to do sub-allocations, like "*allocate* a /22 to this reseller and /21 to that one". Maybe a combination of both. A MIR + LIR structure for the Really Huge networks, and LIR + sub-allocations for smaller networks with a need (or the desire) for hierarchical structure. And yes, this is also very much needed for IPv6. Getting a /35 and having to hand out individual /48's to customers of customers of ours isn't going to build proper hierarchical routing. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299