ISP customer assignments

Tue Oct 6 00:18:10 UTC 2009

> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Robert.E.VanOrmer at frb.gov wrote:
> > 
> > >The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see
> > >any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4.  Consider
> > 
> > A lesson learned is that thinking about address allocation is something 
> > you do not want to spend too many precious seconds of your life on. 
> > That's one reason why the space was designed to be so big.  Being 
> > penny-wise and pound-foolish doesn't really save you much in the IPv6 
> > address space.
> 
> .. address aggregation?
> .. convergence time?
> 
> I'm sorry, but seeing a good fraction of my local IX simply containing
> a few ISP's deaggregated view of their "local" internal networks versus
> a sensible allocation policy makes me cry. IPv6 may just make this
> worse. IPv6 certainly won't make it "better".

That would seem to be an IX administrative problem.

As it stands, there are lots and lots and lots of AS's that advertise
multiple blocks of space.  Ideally, one would rather see a large ISP
get a single delegation, rather than advertising 50 or 500.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
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With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.