Good points Tony - I guess we will have to wait until a large provider puts in a significant request, which may be some time yet. There are certainly more homes than universities+colleges (though of course most universities offer dialup to stduent homes :-)
Tim On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Tony Hain wrote: > And you are arguing that the national academic research network provider > needs more than 10 bits to serve its customers. While this is probably > true for the IPv4 space since the customers acquired their allocations > independently from the provider and are therefore disjoint, consider > that the process of moving allows the provider to structure the > boundaries according to density. If your argument is that this does not > align perfectly with current topology, how much of that could/would be > fixed if address management required it? In other words, how much of > current topology is there because it can be as opposed to it needs to > be? Granted there will be cases where topology can't be perfectly > aligned to achieve 100% allocation efficiency, but I don't see anyone > demanding 100%. Have you tried to get an allocation large enough to > cover the network by allocating /48's to the current customers? If so > what was the response? > > Tony > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
