[114208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon May 4 15:10:03 2009
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:09:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <49FF370B.9080902@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 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.
We returned our vintage year 2000 /32 to RIPE and got a brand shiny new
/25 instead. It helps to have a couple of tens of million customers. We
hope we never have to pollute the DFZ, by just having a single prefix for
the forseeable future.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
