[117890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Oct 5 20:24:09 2009
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <81634882-8083-443D-8548-481047009B4D@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:20:39 -0700
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen,
On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> If people start getting /32s because some ISPs are refusing to
> route /48s, then,
> the RIRs are not doing their stewardship job correctly and we should
> resolve
> that issue.
Since when do RIRs, good stewards or not, control routing policy of
ISPs?
> IPv6 offers so much address space that we could give every existing
> IPv4 user an entire IPv6 ISP allocation (no, I'm not recommending
> this)
> and still have enough /32s left over in IPv6 to give one to each ISP
> and large mega-corp.
Um. How many /32s are their in IPv4? How many /32s are their in IPv6?
Regards,
-drc
