Where to buy Internet IP addresses

Mon May 4 18:42:19 UTC 2009

Joe Maimon wrote:
> 
> 
> Joe Greco wrote:
> 
>> One of the goals of providing larger address spaces was to reduce (and
>> hopefully eliminate) the need to burn forwarding table entries where
>> doing so isn't strictly necessary.  When we forget this, it leads us
>> to the same sorts of disasters that we currently have in v4.
>>
>> ... JG
> 
> And if you are encouraging /48 handouts, /32 isnt large enough to
> prevent that on the global level.
> 

What remains to be seen is what will happen when someone says "hey, my
/32 is full, I need another one". Will it be:

a) Sure, here's another /32, have fun!
b) You didn't subnet very efficiently by current standards even though
it was encouraged in the past; try to reclaim some space internally.

~Seth