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Re: ISP customer assignments
From: TJ <trejrco () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:30:13 -0400
And I will play devil's advocate to the devil's advocate ... wait, does that make me God's advocate? Nice! On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com> wrote:
Sorry to be a curmudgeon and let me play devil's advocate for a minute. I realize that the address space is enormous; gigantic, even, but if we treat it as cavalierly as you all are proposing, it will get used up. If its treated like an infinite resource that will never, ever be used up as we have done with every other resource on the planet, won't we find ourselves in a heap of trouble? Curtis
But the thing is - no-one is proposing we treat it as infinite - just that we treat it the way it was designed to be used. The IETF community "did the math" and decided a /48 per customer was both scalable and sufficient. The community, by and in large, decided that /56s were more appropriate for "small customers" and that is fine, even if some still view it as additional, unneeded complexity. My opinion, based on having done the math as well and operational experience to date, seems to jive that /48s (or even moreso /56s) will work. So let's get to it! /TJ
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- (Spelling embarrassment, ignorable except for spelling pedants) Re: ISP customer assignments, (continued)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Joe Greco (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Ricky Beam (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Dan White (Oct 06)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Mark Smith (Oct 06)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Ricky Beam (Oct 06)
- RE: ISP customer assignments Brian Johnson (Oct 06)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Michael Dillon (Oct 08)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Curtis Maurand (Oct 08)
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- Re: ISP customer assignments Tim Chown (Oct 08)
- Re: ISP customer assignments TJ (Oct 08)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Michael Dillon (Oct 08)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Dan White (Oct 08)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Michael Dillon (Oct 09)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Justin Shore (Oct 12)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Doug Barton (Oct 12)
- Re: ISP customer assignments George Michaelson (Oct 12)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Scott Morris (Oct 12)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Mark Newton (Oct 12)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Scott Morris (Oct 13)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Joe Abley (Oct 13)