Hi, On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:58:25PM +0100, Sebastian Willing wrote:
Gert Doering wrote: [...]
The other point is that one of the main arguments in that RFC is "if a customer changes ISPs, they will always get the same size prefix (a /48)", which is just not working if customers can very liberally get more than a /48 to account for "another-level-down end sites". So we're back to the address space haggling days, just argueing about the number of /48s instead the number of single IPs. [...]
A /48 isn't the same as an v4-IP.
I'm aware of that.
Using a /48, one has 65536 different /64-IPs which is really enough for most applications. Less people will request more than one /48 this way and it is and should be the job of the LIR to filter these who want as many IPs as possible just for fun.
The design of the policy is "give everybody a /48 without asking" so that there is no *need* for discussion, weeding out "unwarranted applications" and "if you don't give it to me, I go to $otherisp who will!". This contradicts the so-far result of the ongoing discussion, which is "if someone has some sort of semi-independent networks connected, they can get a /48 on their own, so the upstream has to get more space"... Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 55593 (55180) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299