Address space for individuals

Daniel,

>   > Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot at ripe.net> writes:
> 
>   > - If this person only has a few hosts, then it is probably a good idea to
>   >   ask him to renumber once he connects to the Internet. I don't believe
>   >   that renumbering 3 PC's would be that much of a problem.
>   >   1597 might be useful after all..
> 
> This sums up my personal opinion.

Great, quite along my personal opinion, but we need a consistent
approach among all Local IRs.

> If they are not going to connect immediately, then let them use private
> address space and renumber their 3 hosts later.
> 
> If they are going to connect immediately, let the service provider
> registry assign numbers. 

Sure.

> I know of cases where they subnet part of
> the SP space. Soon - when we have a classless allocation registry, 
> this can even be registered.

The world, now classless, might have /30s and /29s all over the place.
I do not want to think of /32s. This gives us a neat "tool" to make
sure that everybody has address space assigned to her or him that fits
the needs.

Looking into my cristal ball (sorry, I sound like somebody else :-) ),
I see a world in which the bakery on the corner of the street has a
brand new /28 assigned to his one-man company by a ISP he selected.
After a few month the guy making bread discovers there is an ISP for
the bakery branch in his city and he wants to switch over to the
bakery-ISP. This ISP welcomes his new customer with open arms and
announces this /28 to the Internet at large. Remember, this /28 is from
the first ISP in this story. Think of what this will do to the
efficiency of CIDR...

Bottom line of this story is that there needs to be a mechanism in place
that forces the bakery to renumber to a CIDR range of his new service
provider. For the bakery with a /28 this is not too complex, but what
about this large company with a /15?

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Erik-Jan.