[Nanog-futures] Update on NANOG Marketing Working Group

2009-10-05 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
Everyone, The NANOG Marketing Working Group has been working hard to help NANOG find new profitable revenue to ensure the meetings keep getting better without raising prices. The group's most active members are: Betty Burke (Merit, SC) Carol Wadsworth (Merit) Greg Dendy Dave Tempkin Martin

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for bottedclients

2009-10-05 Thread Nils Kolstein
Exactly correct. The number one priority, which trumps all others, is making the abuse stop. Yes, there are many other things that can and should be done, but that's the first one. Stopping the abuse is fine, but cutting service to the point that a family using VOIP only for their

Re: Minimum IPv6 size

2009-10-05 Thread Leo Vegoda
On 04/10/2009 4:49, Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net wrote: [...] So, if I need to break up my /32 into 4 /34s to cover different geographical regions, I should instead renumber into a new range set aside for /34s and give back the /32? Sure seems like a lot of extra overhead. Perhaps we should

RE: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for botted clients

2009-10-05 Thread Lee Howard
-Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 4:04 PM To: Peter Beckman Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for botted clients On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Peter Beckman

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for botted clients

2009-10-05 Thread Justin Shore
Gadi Evron wrote: Apparently, marketing departments like the idea of being able to send customers that need to pay them to a walled garden. It also saves on tech support costs. Security being the main winner isn't the main supporter of the idea at some places. I would love to do this both

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for botted clients

2009-10-05 Thread Leigh Porter
Justin Shore wrote: Gadi Evron wrote: Apparently, marketing departments like the idea of being able to send customers that need to pay them to a walled garden. It also saves on tech support costs. Security being the main winner isn't the main supporter of the idea at some places. I would

operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Leland Vandervort
Hi All, Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application that we were neither aware of nor condoned. Thanks in advance. Leland Vandervort Director, Technical Operations Gandi SAS Paris t: +33 1 70 39 37 59

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application that we were neither aware of nor condoned. Clearly I do not have all the information, so please

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Alex Balashov
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application that we were neither aware of nor condoned. Clearly I do not have all the

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Justin Wilson - MTIN
We have had issues with a FB application basically doing a DOS against a network. This was not on our servers but somewhere out there on the Internet. It was an application that was going rogue. It was talking to several of our user¹s using this application. FaceBook caught it and made the

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application that we were neither aware of nor condoned. Clearly I

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application that we were neither aware of nor condoned. Clearly I do not have all the information, so

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Leland Vandervort
The application is not being hosted on the VPS servers, but rather on the mutualised blog platform and is impacting on other customers of this platform. We have VPS services available for the app developer in question to host his application on should he desire to do so. Leland On Mon,

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Billon
I guess the facebook app allows any FB user to check availability of domain names or to request Gandi's whois database. From what I saw, FB people do not check every applications neither before or after publication. And that could create some issues out there. Patrick W. Gilmore a écrit :

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application that we were neither aware of nor condoned. You might be able to reach the right people at o...@facebook.com

ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Johnson
From what I can tell from an ISP perspective, the design of IPv6 is for assignment of a /64 to an end user. Is this correct? Is this how it is currently being done? If not, where am I going wrong? Thank you. - Brian

Re: Verizon Southeast Network Map

2009-10-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: We're considering adding a Verizon connection to our network in Florida, so I've been looking unsuccessfully for a map of Verizon's fiber network in the southeast to verify that I'll have diverse paths with my other providers. Does anyone know if such

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Leland Vandervort
Thanks Justin... will give it a shot; hopefully they're relatively rapid :) Leland On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:31 -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Seth Mattinen
Brian Johnson wrote: From what I can tell from an ISP perspective, the design of IPv6 is for assignment of a /64 to an end user. Is this correct? Is this how it is currently being done? If not, where am I going wrong? The most common thing I see is /64 if the end user only needs one subnet,

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This is a classic case of one of the problems of the increasingly numerous and powerful Web dev platforms - as you let other people either control your app through an API, or even write code that executes on the server-side, you're increasing the cycles available to an attacker. It's similar to

RE: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Johnson
So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses? I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a single device! Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly? - Brian -Original Message-

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Oct 5, 2009, at 17:38, Seth Mattinen wrote: The most common thing I see is /64 if the end user only needs one subnet, /56 if they need more than one. Brrzt, wrong. Neither the end user nor you know the answer to that question! So the only sensible thing is to always give them a /56.

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread TJ
Yes, each and every network segment (especially multi-access ones) should be /64s. Regardless of the types of machines, speed of link, etc. It is an entirely different model of addressing, whose name just happens to start with IP ... /TJ On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Brian Johnson

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Seth Mattinen
Carsten Bormann wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 17:38, Seth Mattinen wrote: The most common thing I see is /64 if the end user only needs one subnet, /56 if they need more than one. Brrzt, wrong. Neither the end user nor you know the answer to that question! So the only sensible thing is to

IPv6 peering between Internet2 and Hurricane Electric

2009-10-05 Thread Florian Weimer
It seems to be down, based on http://routerproxy.grnoc.iu.edu/internet2/ and trying to get a traceroute to he.net/2001:470:0:76::2 from the SEAT location. BGP seems to be up, though. Shouldn't this cause quite a few problems for Internet2 downstreams? (We received a report from an academic site

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com wrote: From what I can tell from an ISP perspective, the design of IPv6 is for assignment of a /64 to an end user. Is this correct? Is this how it is currently being done? If not, where am I going wrong? No. A /64 is one

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Michael Dillon
more-or-less. Can I suggest you read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6 Think of ipv6 not as 128 bits of address space, but more as a addressing system with a globally unique host part and 2^64 possible subnets. In this respect it's substantially different to ipv4. And after reading

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Alex Balashov
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application

RE: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Johnson
What would be wrong with using a /64 for a customer who only has a local network? Most home users won't understand what a subnet is. - Brian -Original Message- From: wher...@gmail.com [mailto:wher...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 11:58 AM To:

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:10:15PM -0500, Brian Johnson wrote: What would be wrong with using a /64 for a customer who only has a local network? Most home users won't understand what a subnet is. IPv6 CPE's may be designed to get one subnet per physical media via DHCPv6-PD, so for example

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Jens Link
Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com writes: So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses? I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a single device! Most people will have more than one device. And

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for bottedclients

2009-10-05 Thread Barry Shein
Perhaps someone has said this but a potential implementation problem in the US are anti-trust regulations. Sure, they may come around to seeing it your way since the intent is so good but then again we all decided to get together and blacklist customers who... is not a great elevator pitch to an

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses? I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a single device! Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly? The fact that you could use

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:18:23PM +0200, Jens Link wrote: Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com writes: So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses? I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That?s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com wrote: What would be wrong with using a /64 for a customer who only has a local network? Most home users won't understand what a subnet is. It's a question of convenience... your customers', but more importantly yours. Every time

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Brian Johnson wrote: What would be wrong with using a /64 for a customer who only has a local network? Most home users won't understand what a subnet is. They probably don't -- but some appliance they buy might. Maybe some home family-oriented box will put the

FairPoint New England Internet Access issues.

2009-10-05 Thread Davis, Bill (Manchester, NH)
Oct 2, 2009: Verizon identified it largest CORE Juniper router was creating issues for all of it peering points to New York and Boston having said that all of FairPoint's DIA, DSL, Fast customer had intermittent issues accessing the internet partial service was restored after Verizon reroute

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
Am I the only one that finds this problematic? No, but most of the people who find this problematic haven't done any looking into the matter. I mean, the whole point of moving to a 128 bit address was to ensure that we would never again have a problem of address depletion. Now I'm not

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Ricky Beam
[here we go again] On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:37:49 -0400, William Herrin herrin-na...@dirtside.com wrote: Some clever guy figured out that ... why not add an extra 64 bits for that very convenient improvement? This is called stateless autoconfiguration. Except that clever guy was in fact an

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:34:51AM -0700, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: Am I the only one that finds this problematic? I mean, the whole point of moving to a 128 bit address was to ensure that we would never again have a problem of address depletion. Now I'm not saying that this puts us anywhere

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Chris Owen
On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: Whenever you declare something to be inexhasutable all you do is increase demand. Eventually you reach a point where you realize that there is, in fact, a limit to the inexhaustable resource. This is where I think there is a major

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Dan White
On 05/10/09 16:20 -0500, Chris Owen wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: Whenever you declare something to be inexhasutable all you do is increase demand. Eventually you reach a point where you realize that there is, in fact, a limit to the inexhaustable resource. This

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread bmanning
considered top posting to irritate a few folks, decided not to. On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 04:20:44PM -0500, Chris Owen wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: Whenever you declare something to be inexhasutable all you do is increase demand. Eventually you reach a point

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Dorn Hetzel
The estimated mass of our galaxy is around 6x10^42Kg. The mass of earth is a little less than 6x10^24Kg. 2^128 is around 3.4x10^38. So in a flat address space we have about one IPV6 address for every 20,000Kg in the galaxy or for every 20 picograms in the earth... One would hope it would last

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Brian Johnson wrote: So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses? No, that's a single subnet, typically they should be assigned more than that. I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Michael Dillon
This is where I think there is a major disconnect on IPv6.   The size of the pool is just so large that people just can't wrap their heads around it. Why bother wrapping your head around it? Do you count how many computers are in your house? Did you remember to count the CPU inside the PC

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread bmanning
well - if we are presuming a -FLAT- space, then IPv4 will last a great deal longer than 2011. and tell your vendors to pump up the CAM/ARP table sizes ... and bring back the ARP storms of the 1980s. (who owns the vitalink codes base anyway?) --bill On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:47:12PM

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:13:37 CDT, Dan White said: a publicly routeable stateless auto configured address is no less secure than a publicly routeable address assigned by DHCP. Security is, and should be, handled by other means. The problem is user tracking and privacy. RFC4941's problem

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Owen DeLong
It's very likely that they won't understand, won't have to, and will still need them. Let's face it, most customer's don't know what an IP address is, really, but, they still need them and they still use them all the time. It is, as someone else stated, very likely that there will be home

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Dan White
On 05/10/09 18:35 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:13:37 CDT, Dan White said: a publicly routeable stateless auto configured address is no less secure than a publicly routeable address assigned by DHCP. Security is, and should be, handled by other means. The

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for bottedclients

2009-10-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Barry Shein wrote: Perhaps someone has said this but a potential implementation problem in the US are anti-trust regulations. Sure, they may come around to seeing it your way since the intent is so good but then again we all decided to get together and blacklist

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for bottedclients

2009-10-05 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:55:02PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Barry Shein wrote: Perhaps someone has said this but a potential implementation problem in the US are anti-trust regulations. Sure, they may come around to seeing it your way since the intent is so

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:18:23PM +0200, Jens Link wrote: Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com writes: So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses? I realize that this is future

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/05/2009 04:41 PM, robert.e.vanor...@frb.gov wrote: The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider as a residential customer, I will be provided a /64, which means each individual on Earth

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread David Andersen
On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm perplexed. At what size address would people stop worrying about the finite address space? 256 bits? 1024 bits? I just don't get it. It's not like people get stressed out about running out of name space in English which is probably more

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, robert.e.vanor...@frb.gov wrote: The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider A lesson learned is that thinking about

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Owen DeLong
If people start getting /32s because some ISPs are refusing to route / 48s, then, the RIRs are not doing their stewardship job correctly and we should resolve that issue. If addresses are handed out according to policies, there is more than enough space for every individual to have a /48. I

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. That's probably because IPv4 was a technology where the expected host address allocation strategy was (last+1) and IPv6 is a technology where the default

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/05/2009 04:59 PM, David Andersen wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm perplexed. At what size address would people stop worrying about the finite address space? 256 bits? 1024 bits? I just don't get it. It's not like people get stressed out about running out of

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread David Conrad
I've been trying to stay out of this discussion because it is pointless, however as I can't help picking at scratching mosquito bites either... On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm perplexed. At what size address would people stop worrying about the finite address space?

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, robert.e.vanor...@frb.gov wrote: The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider A lesson learned is that thinking

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread David Conrad
Owen, On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: If people start getting /32s because some ISPs are refusing to route /48s, then, the RIRs are not doing their stewardship job correctly and we should resolve that issue. Since when do RIRs, good stewards or not, control routing policy

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread David Barak
The fallacy here is the idea that IPv6 has a 128-bit namespace. It does not. It has two 64 bit namespaces, where one is expected to be globally unique and flat, While the other is hierarchical. IPv6 has a lot more room than v4 does, but it is worth noting Than in v4, a customer would

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/05/2009 05:09 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, robert.e.vanor...@frb.gov wrote: The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider

(Spelling embarrassment, ignorable except for spelling pedants) Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread David Conrad
On Oct 5, 2009, at 5:20 PM, David Conrad wrote: Um. How many /32s are their in IPv4? How many /32s are their in IPv6? Of course, that should be there in both cases. Wow. Regards, -drc

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Joe Greco wrote: I'm sorry, but seeing a good fraction of my local IX simply containing a few ISP's deaggregated view of their local internal networks versus a sensible allocation policy makes me cry. IPv6 may just make this worse. IPv6 certainly won't make it

RE: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread TJ
Just for grins, put a unique IPv6 address in every active RFID tag. ... and remember that there are RFID printers that can put 18 tags on a single A4 sheet. Numbers will become disposible, like starbucks coffee cups and MCD's bigmac containers. --bill Ignoring the

RE: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread TJ
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:13:37 CDT, Dan White said: a publicly routeable stateless auto configured address is no less secure than a publicly routeable address assigned by DHCP. Security is, and should be, handled by other means. The problem is user tracking and privacy. RFC4941's problem

RE: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread TJ
The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider A lesson learned is that thinking about address allocation is something you do not want to spend too many precious seconds of your life on.

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:41 PM, robert.e.vanor...@frb.gov wrote: The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Robert, I would suggest that some of the lessons we learned are faulty. Maladaptive. CIDR

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Durack
So now Verizon is in open revolt against ARIN. They positively refuse to carry /48's from legitimately multihomed users. Eff 'em. Perhaps Verizon would sooner see IPv6 go down in flames than see their TCAMs fill up again. Who knows their reasoning? Agree or disagree, it is indeed food for

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:55:35 -0400, Dan White dwh...@olp.net wrote: All of the items in the above list are true of DHCP. ... In an IPv4 world (which is where DHCP lives), it's much MUCH harder to track assignments -- I don't share my DHCP logs with anyone, nor does anyone send theirs to

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread joel jaeggli
Tim Durack wrote: Thing is, I'm an end user site. I need more that a /48, but probably less than a /32. Seeing as how we have an AS and PI, PA isn't going to cut it. What am I supposed to do? ARIN suggested creative subnetting. We pushed back and got a /41. If IPv6 doesn't scratch an itch,

Practical numbers for IPv6 allocations

2009-10-05 Thread Doug Barton
[ I normally don't say this, but please reply to the list only, thanks. ] I've been a member of the let's not assume the IPv6 space is infinite school from day 1, even though I feel like I have a pretty solid grasp of the math. Others have alluded to some of the reasons why I have concerns about

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:40:28 EDT, TJ said: Isn't this really a security by obscurity argument? No - security through obscurity is security measures that only seem to work because you hope the attacker doesn't know how they are implemented. In this case, making sure somebody else can't

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-05 Thread Seth Mattinen
joel jaeggli wrote: Tim Durack wrote: Thing is, I'm an end user site. I need more that a /48, but probably less than a /32. Seeing as how we have an AS and PI, PA isn't going to cut it. What am I supposed to do? ARIN suggested creative subnetting. We pushed back and got a /41. If IPv6

Re: Practical numbers for IPv6 allocations

2009-10-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: As a practical matter we're stuck with /64 as the smallest possible network we can reliably assign. A /60 contains 16 /64s, which personally I think is more than enough for a residential customer, even taking a long view