[111696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Feb 10 17:37:52 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4992004A.9030508@leisi.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:37:46 -0500
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On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Matthias Leisi wrote:
> Mark Andrews schrieb:
>
>> I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers.
>> It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology
>> change over bring in new functionality.
>
> OTOH, Verizon is not the only provider of smartphone connectivity in
> the
> world. Most of them try to be "good citizens" and do not waste a
> scarce
> resource (IPv4 space).
You mean like the 10.x.x.x addresses give to all iPhones in the US?
Wait, I thought NAT was bad? So who is the "good citizen"?
--
TTFN,
patrick
> If more providers would act like Verizon, we would have run out of
> IPv4
> addresses a long time ago (whether or not that is a good or bad
> thing is
> left as an exercise to the reader).
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
