[114187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon May 4 09:44:09 2009
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:43:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <49FEEBA1.10306@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jack Bates wrote:
> 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.
I never heard of this requirement before, but I am not in the ARIN region.
There is no technical reason why you can't give the user the same /56 each
time via PD, the same way some offer static IPs via DHCP.
> Until then, /60 sounds fine. Allows higher capacity per /48 on a node and
> will give most customers more than they will ever use.
Try to change the policy instead.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
