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Re: [pekkas@localhost: RIR ISP to end-user address allocation policy?]

  • To: Pekka Savola < >
  • From: Gert Doering < >
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:23:39 +0200
  • Cc: Gert Doering < >
    John Wells < >
Hi,

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:11:01PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Would this kind of "voluntary" assignment work in practise?  I wouldn't
> bet a penny on it; ISP's would just do /128 and write the customer
> contracts so that the other methods would not be possible in practise.

There is nothing voluntary about this.,

> Also, I do not see how a wireless device needs /64 when dial-up wouldn't.

It would, if there's a subnet behind it (bluetooth, whatnot).  It wouldn't,
otherwise.

> I think it's common today that e.g. 2 home computers share an internet
> connection.  With mobiles and other gadgets going IP this might increase.

So they get a /64.  No discussion necessary.

But for a single-user dynamic IP dialup account ("notebook on the road"), 
this might just be too much overhead.

Gert Doering
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