On 10 December 2012 16:07, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > You don't SWIP each residential customer with IPv4. You often SWIP blocks > of residential customers down to the pop level. > You often SWIP each commercial customer with IPv4. > > To require a SWIP entry for each residential customer is bureaucracy > gone mad. Additionally there is no technical need for this. It > isn't needed for address accountability. Residential customers > have historically been treated in bulk.
Yes, agreed; and note that in my specific case, we're not even talking about the residential customer situation: we're talking about individual private servers (with IPv4) requiring basic IPv6 connectivity (in order to be dual stacked, no more). I'm picky, and will not accept long and unabbreviatable addresses (especially when I'm already paying for a unique and "short" 32-bit IPv4 address). Having my street address, apartment and phone numbers appearing in a public whois is also hardly a pleasantry. But for all I care (and I'm not a network engineer), I just need a single IPv6 address or two; an abbreviatable /124 is all I'd need; but, then, why not just issue a /48, since that's manageable and easier anyways? C.
