[14346] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Impact of paying for address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip J. Nesser II)
Tue Dec 23 20:25:55 1997
From: "Philip J. Nesser II" <pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: phil@charon.milepost.com (Phil Howard)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 20:14:26 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199712240050.SAA00963@charon.milepost.com> from "Phil Howard" at Dec 23, 97 06:50:10 pm
Phil Howard supposedly said:
>
> With there being a fee structure coming into place for obtaining address
> space, businesses are going to end up being more conservative with their
> space requests. Maybe. I suspect many will. If you expect to assign
> a /17 worth of space over the next year, why ask for all /17 of it now.
> Why not get a /19 each quarter as needed. With the fee structure in
> place, there would be less panic about space becoming too scarce.
>
> Now if this does take place, and I believe it will although I am not sure
> to what scale, that will mean that each business and ISP will have more
> smaller prefixes. That means more BGP announcements and larger tables and
> an impact on routers.
>
> Thoughts?
>
This assumes that ARIN won't be giving you /19 out of a reserved /17 (or
/16) and then giving you the other half of the /18, then the other half of
the /17, etc, so all you need to do is change your prefix length not the
number of announcements.
Also your plan doesn't work so well, since ARIN will be charging you a
member ship fee based on your expected *yearly* allocation.
---> Phil
