Pekka Savola wrote: ... > > > Sure, but there are also other ways to obtain addresses. > > > > Really? Would you care naming one available today? > > a) talk to your ISP (or one of its upstreams), which his hopefully a LIR, > or > > b) talk to any LIR, and pay him e.g. 100$/mo. He'll gladly give you > address space even though you don't want physical connectivity at all.
This simply doesn't fly. First of all, 100$/mo is far too much for a small office, school etc or for every Winnebago in the USA. Free, or $10 one-time fee, is more like it. Secondly, even if we get past that, it's the wrong answer. If I get a /48 from ISP A, and want to use it in "private" mode to set up VPNs to business partners who have their public connectivity from ISPs A, B and C, this /48 is going to cause various forms of head scratching for the operations people at all those business partners, and if it leaks, at all those ISPs. What is this /48 from ISP A doing on a site connected to B or C, or to a different part of A? Yes, this can all be configured to work, but it will be a much greater source of operational confusion than a /48 which by inspection can be seen to be private (not globally routeable) space. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
