ISP customer assignments

Tue Oct 6 14:29:50 UTC 2009

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert.E.VanOrmer at frb.gov [mailto:Robert.E.VanOrmer at frb.gov]
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:41 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: ISP customer assignments
> 
> Organizations will be provided /48s or smaller, but given the current
> issues with routing /48's globally, I think you will find more
> organizations fighting for /32s or smaller... 

Most organizations will still be assigned a /48 (or whatever) from their
ISP.  Provider-aggregable addressing has no routing scalability problems.

> I can see between IPv4 and IPv6 is how much of a pain it is to type a 128
> bit address...  

I have to agree, here.  Moving between letters and numbers, and having 
to hit "shift" to use the colon wastes valuable keystrokes compared to 
the keypad.  However, compare IPv6 vs IPv4-like numbering:

2001:db8:f1::1		
81.93.35.12.241.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1

Did I type the right number of zeroes?

Lee