Re: Refuse een assignment because it 'cannot' be routed?
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:03:18 +0100
To continue that (cute | silly | pick-your-choice) analogy...
=> I only want a fixed frontdoor (1 fixed IP address), but I am trying to force
=> my landlord into letting me have it without paying tripple rent, by asking
=> the government (RIPE) to give me a building permission to install more
=> doors. Not because I want more doors, but to keep the landlord from moving
=> my single door every day :)
=>
=
=Hi,
=
= Hmm... this analogy isn't correct. RIPE is not the government in this.
=RIPE, or your local LIR can give you a door (address assignment), but
=you still need to get a permit from the local counsil to place it
=(Getting your service provider to actually route it).
=
=One of the things your local LIR may require before selling you a door
=is having a permit. Buying the door somewhere else (RIPE) does not
=automagically entitle you to a permit.
...what we are seeing in reality, though, is something like the
"government" (the RIPE NCC) coming back with a question about the
colour and style of the door.
And - depending on your answer - either going ahead issuing a
_permanent_ permit for e.g. an Ethernet- or leased-line-style door
("static"), but limiting the validity of the permit for an xDSL- style
or dial-up door to as long as you, or someone from your family, happens
stay at home ("dynamic"). As soon as you go to work, or even worse -
take a couple of days off, duhh!!! - you have to submit another
application for installing a door.
And, the "government", suggests to the manufaturers of the doors (and/or
to the landlord), to give you a call on the phone every, say, 8 hours,
to confirm that you haven't left for shopping (physicly) or turned to
RTFM (virtually/mentally logging off).
That's exactly what happens to me, back home, with my ADSL link being
dropped every 8 hours by the ISP *on purpose*, because the NCC sort of
"suggests" to the ISPs to use dial-up ratio mechanisms for 24x7 xDSL,
flat rate billing.
Very clever, indeed, in particular when someone tries to do stuff that
is security-aware.
But I have beaten that one to death before (technology independence of
assignment rules). Sigh...
Wilfried.
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