[114185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon May 4 09:20:48 2009
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:20:33 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905030957340.22851@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> It's short sighted and silly to design your service around handing out
> /64s to people and then you have to redesign it when demand for multiple
> subnets come around. Design it around /56 to begin with, and you will
> have solved the problem for the future, not just for now.
>
Then tell RIR's to quit insisting that /56's have SWIP's. They can't
very well be dynamic in nature via PD if they are being SWIP'd.
Until then, /60 sounds fine. Allows higher capacity per /48 on a node
and will give most customers more than they will ever use.
Jack
