[76085] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ULA and RIR cost-recovery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nils Ketelsen)
Wed Dec 1 09:07:41 2004
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:06:59 -0500
From: Nils Ketelsen <nils.ketelsen@kuehne-nagel.com>
To: 'North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes' <nanog@merit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412010836590.28718@netcore.fi>; from pekkas@netcore.fi on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:41:37AM +0200
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On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:41:37AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Uhh, I'd say there are a thousand or two such ISPs in the world.
> That's not insignificant. It isn't useful to be stingy when
> allocating prefixes to ISPs which _might_ end up needing more than a
> /32 for their customer /48 assignments.
>
> And if such ISPs decide that rather than going through the process of
> justifying more space, they end up giving the customers /64's
> instead.. well, the result might not be pretty.
I think the risk of ISPs handing out /64s is very small. Actually I expect
most of the consumer ISPs (and they are the ones with the large number
of customers) to hand out /128s. If they started giving networks
(and not just single Addresses) to their customers their complete set of
"business products" would no longer exist. I doubt the techies are
strong enough to fight this through against product management.
Nils
