Allocations for "always-on" ISPs

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Simon Skals wrote:

>Being an IP bloke with a conscience, I would personally hate to provide our
>regular home users with /29's. However, should our competitors start doing
>this, we would of course have to respond. It would be a shame, however, if
>the commercial struggles should end up leading to a swift exhaustion of
>IPv4 space.

Note that there are technologies available for always-on where you "only"
need one IP-address per customer, not a /29-subnet. It is still routed,
and they have no layer 2 connectivity. This works fine with eg ADSL.

Of course, some network scenarios require a subnet. But it is up to every
operator to decide what technology to use. RIPE could regulate this by
refusing to allocate addresses for /29-technologies for residential usage.
Just like they did in the past with allocating address space for
WWW-hosting, in favor of IP-less virtual hosting.

-- Janne

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