[1660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Piet Beertema)
Mon Jan 29 06:01:30 1996
To: peter@unipalm.pipex.com
In-Reply-To: "Your message of Sun, 28 Jan 96 18:46:00 GMT "
<MAPI.Id.0016.00657465726420204333343130303138@MAPI.to.RFC822>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:53:01 +0100
From: Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema@cwi.nl>
Demon Internet Services provide an IP address for every dial-up
customer. Most other ISPs have taken the view that this is a waste
of valuable IP space and allocate IP addresses dynamically.
How should our industry respond to ISPs who behave selfishly and
do not take into account the good of the network?
Is it just selfish or do they have good reasons?
Dynamic address assignment and (static!) access
control don't go very well together, which could
be a reason for static address assignment.
Piet
