[114159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Sun May 3 01:31:12 2009
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 01:30:52 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905020736331.22851@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2 May 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>> [1] Just because we've got a lot of it, doesn't mean we should be
>> pissing it
>> up against the wall unnecessarily. A motto for network engineers and
>> economists alike.
>
> You can't be wasteful with something that you know is already extremely
> plentyful.
There is no resource that cannot be pissed away, if you try hard enough.
>
> We currently have 72 million billion /56:es. If we do /56:es of the
> current /16 being handed out and then change our mind, we can still hand
> out 1100 billion /56:es before we can discover this was wasteful and
> then we will have spent one 65536th of the address space available.
>
Philosophical:
You know, if we are just going to act as if ipv6 has only 64 bits, why
didnt we just design it with only 64?
Practical:
Think of the routing table. How many /48's in a /32?
> Give people a /56 and if they only use one NOW,
Give people a /96. Thats a whole internet.
Whats that? They resurrected classfull addressing for ipv6?
