BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32)

Thu Nov 25 14:58:05 UTC 2004

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:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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 one
> > can always get a large chunk, but then you really need it.
> 
> But even I as a private person, though only getting one phone number, I 
> 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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