>>>>> "Devdas" == Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Devdas> [snip]
Devdas> Hmmm, then we should start by taking away a lot of class A
Devdas> blocks and redistributing them via CIDR. IBM doesn't need
Devdas> 9/8, MIT doesn't need 18/8+ a few class B blocks. Stanford
Devdas> did the right thing, now all the others should follow too.
ARIN, APNIC, RIPE & co are moving in that direction -- trying to get
the organisations who have huge IP blocks to exchange them for smaller
ones which fit their current and planned infrastructure.
Note that technicaly the current problem isn't a shortage of IPs --
there are enough and more for the next 100 years -- but the issues of
routing. Core router BGP tables are already overflowing with IP's
being broken into increasingly smaller blocks. The smaller the blocks
you can allocate in, the more IP's become `available' and the larger
the routing tables grow.
Routing table size has become such an issue that most of the
registries now refuse to allocate anything less than a /19 (8192 IP's)
and are planning to raise that threshold to the best of my knowledge.
Devdas> Though, we should be moving to ipv6, or further.
Erhm, well, as and when that happens. Hopefully faster now that the
new versions of Winduhs support IPv6, though I'm sure that'll be fully
RFC-non-compliant ;-)
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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