[75828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Thu Nov 25 09:59:04 2004
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: Nils Ketelsen <nils.ketelsen@kuehne-nagel.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041125094917.A5275@torzimon>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:58:05 +0100
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On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 09:49 -0500, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:27:45AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>=20
> > Which kind of makes the point, that they deserve the /32 and any
> > organization that has at least quite a number of employees can thus get
> > one. If you are too small, then you are simply: too small.
> >=20
> > Compare it too the following: Ask a telco for 10 million phone
> > numbers... a large company will actually use them, a small company won'=
t
> > ever do that in it's lifetime. Of course, when you have grown larger on=
e
> > can always get a large chunk, but then you really need it.
>=20
> But even I as a private person, though only getting one phone number, I=20
> can keep it when I change my long distance provider.
Because a phone number is not an address but a locator.
At the moment unfortunately most people use IP's also as locators, while
DNS is the best fit locator, and you can keep a hostname if you also own
that domain that is ;)
Greets,
Jeroen
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