David Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeroen, > > On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 10:33 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > Enduser ISP's will always charge for extra IP space as it's > > currently not customary to give an enduser more than 1 IP. > > Varies per service provider. My home ISP, for example, provides 2 > static addresses for the package I purchased. I frequently heard of > ISPs allocating /24s to customers, although that was a while back.
Depends on a lot of things indeed. I could probably get more than one IP if I wanted to and paid for it. > > Also IPv4 is a becoming a 'scarce' resource. > > Of course, IANA just 'found' another 350 million unused addresses... Note that I quoted 'scarce', which is not for nothing, because indeed: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space Quick grab, skipping the smaller leftovers: 58 - 60 reserved 70 - 79 reserved 83 - 126 reserved 197 reserved 224 - 239 multicast 240 - 255 reserved But the fact is that a country like China could use that space up with ease when they are going for mass GPRS mobile phones and other new toys that are under development. Also see HD ratio's. > > You might also realize that the current TLA policy for RIR's > > demands that you have 200 prospect clients. That is 200x /48. > > Aka 200 endusers on DSL will suffice for them. > > For those interested in address allocation policy, I might suggest > participating in the RIR public policy mailing lists and meetings > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and the upcoming Memphis meeting for those in the ARIN > region). Will do, thanks. Greets, Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
