On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 09:49 -0500, Nils Ketelsen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:27:45AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > > Which kind of makes the point, that they deserve the /32 and any > > organization that has at least quite a number of employees can thus get > > one. If you are too small, then you are simply: too small. > > > > Compare it too the following: Ask a telco for 10 million phone > > numbers... a large company will actually use them, a small company won't > > ever do that in it's lifetime. Of course, when you have grown larger one > > can always get a large chunk, but then you really need it. > > But even I as a private person, though only getting one phone number, I > can keep it when I change my long distance provider.
Because a phone number is not an address but a locator. At the moment unfortunately most people use IP's also as locators, while DNS is the best fit locator, and you can keep a hostname if you also own that domain that is ;) Greets, Jeroen
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