[114205] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon May 4 14:44:54 2009
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:42:19 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <49FEF5C0.9050109@ttec.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe Maimon wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
What remains to be seen is what will happen when someone says "hey, my
/32 is full, I need another one". Will it be:
a) Sure, here's another /32, have fun!
b) You didn't subnet very efficiently by current standards even though
it was encouraged in the past; try to reclaim some space internally.
~Seth
