[114189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Mon May 4 10:03:55 2009
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 10:03:44 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200905041139.n44BdFYA093271@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe Greco wrote:
> One of the goals of providing larger address spaces was to reduce (and
> hopefully eliminate) the need to burn forwarding table entries where
> doing so isn't strictly necessary. When we forget this, it leads us
> to the same sorts of disasters that we currently have in v4.
>
> ... JG
And if you are encouraging /48 handouts, /32 isnt large enough to
prevent that on the global level.
