[118133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Michaelson)
Mon Oct 12 23:18:19 2009
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <C38B5F41-EC7B-40C5-A0B7-6961A3E70D87@dougbarton.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:17:33 +1000
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 13/10/2009, at 12:54 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
> wrote:
>> I'm actually taking an IPv6 class right now and the topic of
>> customer assignments came up today (day 1). The instructor was
>> suggesting dynamically allocating /127s to residential customers.
>> I relayed the gist of this thread to him (/48, /56 and /64). I
>> expect to dive deeper into this in the following days in the class.
>
> Out of curiosity who is conducting this class and what was their
> rationale for using /127s?
>
> Doug
As a point of view on this, a member of staff from APNIC was doing a
Masters of IT in the last 3-4 years, and had classfull A/B/C
addressing taught to her in the networks unit. She found it quite a
struggle to convince the lecturer that reality had moved on and they
had no idea about CIDR.
I have from time to time, asked people in ACM and IEEE about how one
informs the tertiary teaching community about this kind of change. The
answers were not inspiring: compared to civil engineering, where
compliance issues and re-training by professionals is almost regulated
(sorry for the R- word) as a function of professional indemnity
insurance and status, its much more common for the syllabus to be
under continual review.
-George
