On 2009-06-19, Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 01:20:59PM -0700, Han Hwei Woo wrote: >> Hi Karl, >> >> If you can justify a single /24, you can request it from one of your >> ISP's, and get a LOA from them to advertise it to your other ISP, >> getting it added to your prefix list. >> >> I believe the minimum for your own ARIN assignment is a /23 if you're >> multi-homing, and either a /20 or /22 for single-homing, or something >> along those lines. >> > > I start to understand why the internet in north-america is so bad.
Yep. They'd rather cut holes out of PA blocks than assign a PI. What were they thinking... certainly doesn't do anything to help the prefix count, and it makes things a right mess. Still, good practice for the address trading that's going to happen, eh?
