On zondag, okt 12, 2003, at 03:23 Europe/Amsterdam, Scott Bradner wrote:
If you have $2500 to ante up for the allocation.
you might take a look at the RIR web pages - it does not cost
an ISP $2500 to get additional address space allocated - the
additional fee for additional space for large ISPs is generally zero.
Yes, really fair. Let the newcomers pay for a resource but not the
people using up most of it.
end site allocations are a different story but there are a few routing
table issues with doing many of those
The problem is that the RIRs require the use of at least a /22 (I think
even a full /20 for ARIN) before they allocate a PA block. This makes
it hard for newcomers to get their own block. In theory this policy
helps keep down the size of the routing table. But in practice it
doesn't, because:
1. many people take a smaller block from their ISP and announce that
2. large networks keep getting /20s and /19s that they announce
individually
Where is the routing table police when you need them?