ARIN?

Sat Nov 7 17:58:37 UTC 1998

Brandon Ross wrote:

> > I don't think arin would object to you giving out static ip's to
> > those of your users who specifically requst this service. ARIN
> > will object if you want to assign a static ip every win95 Dialup
> > person who justs uses the net to surf and check his mail.
> 
> Unless you are @home who they have permitted to assign all of their users
> static IPs.

I wonder if @home has sufficiently proven that it is necessary to actually
give out static IPs to cable modem subscribers.  Considering that DHCP is
there, I would have my doubts.

Regardless of how the market gets sliced up to little providers or going
all to a few big ones, issuing static IPs one to a household in North
America alone is going to eat a huge chunk of address space by the time
the world is all wired up.  There better have been some kind of requirement
that the space they got can be static for now, but has to become dynamic
in the future as they expand, such as by getting no more space until they
show that the peak number of addresses in concurrent use warrants the
increase.

Once concern I have with so many static IPs in use is how do they grow
their network and keep the routes aggregated?  If one area has a /24 and
grows to need more, do you give it an arbitrary 2nd /24 or make it a /23?
Are there going to be hundreds of small announcements from them or just
a few or one?  At least with dynamic (e.g. DHCP) you can renumber a whole
area relatively easily and keep it aggregated.

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