On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Alexander Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Alexander Lopez <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> not to mention the cost in readdressing your entire network when you >> change an upstream provider. >>> >>> Nat was a fix to a problem of lack of addresses, however, the use of >> private address space 10/8, 192.168/16 has allowed many to enjoy a simple >> network addressing scheme. >> >> This is easily and better solved in IPv6 using provider independent >> addressing >> which is readily available. > <rant> > Yes but the number of people needing just a /64 will far outnumber the one > requesting a /48. Businesses? I doubt it. > I would say that the majority of users today and for the future will not > require a /48, but will simply use the allocation given to them by their > upstream. Perhaps, but I don’t see that being just one subnet for anyone at all likely to have a concern about renumbering. > Many today do not multi-home and how many SMB customers just use a single > Public IP behind a NAT device? Those wouldn’t really have a problem renumbering their network. > It is easy for us on this list to use or request PIA, but what about the 10 > person office? I’ve done so for several. It’s not hard or expensive. Owen
