[57970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Apr 28 19:27:44 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:26:52 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030428231104.GF91695@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Niels Bakker wrote:
> d) is basically having the Internet community pay - both in real money
> for staffing at RIRs and in scarce IP address space - for no benefit in
> return at all for a function that those N companies should have an
> institution perform for them via c).
>
Actually, the company pays just the same as everyone else concerning
staffing at RIRs. As for scarce IP address space, the last report I
heard was that surge slowed down in time to keep it from being a serious
problem at this time.
If a company has a habit of making interconnections with other companies
and said company has several /16's worth of network, I can understand
their desire not to use 10/8, as a conflict on a new interconnect could
require massive renumbering. However, I do think there should be methods
in place to recognize that those routes should not be routed by others.
For example, 9/8 shouldn't ever be routed by anyone unless IBM changes
their mind and decides to route it.
-Jack
