[117923] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Howard)
Tue Oct 6 10:30:34 2009
From: "Lee Howard" <lee@asgard.org>
To: <Robert.E.VanOrmer@frb.gov>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <OFE032105D.4243EF78-ON85257646.0080C88E-85257646.00821BD9@frbog.frb.gov>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:29:50 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert.E.VanOrmer@frb.gov [mailto:Robert.E.VanOrmer@frb.gov]
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:41 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: ISP customer assignments
>
> Organizations will be provided /48s or smaller, but given the current
> issues with routing /48's globally, I think you will find more
> organizations fighting for /32s or smaller...
Most organizations will still be assigned a /48 (or whatever) from their
ISP. Provider-aggregable addressing has no routing scalability problems.
> I can see between IPv4 and IPv6 is how much of a pain it is to type a 128
> bit address...
I have to agree, here. Moving between letters and numbers, and having
to hit "shift" to use the colon wastes valuable keystrokes compared to
the keypad. However, compare IPv6 vs IPv4-like numbering:
2001:db8:f1::1
81.93.35.12.241.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1
Did I type the right number of zeroes?
Lee
