Allocations for "always-on" ISPs

> It seems Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
>  >That ofcourse depends on what services you want to offer your
>  >customers.....
>  >
>  >I don't see why you want to break services in order to solve assignment
>  >policies? This said, I do realise that there is a assignment policy aspect
>  >to this as well.
> 
> You might realise that you will end up breaking promises to customers if 
> the offered services collide with acceptable assignment policies.

I do. That is why I wrote that I realise that this is a problem. But I am
seeing more and more companies offering Internet connections while in
reality what the customer is getting is more or less a Intranet
connection. 

This is a complex issue that in the end is up to what the customer has
bought. 

> We are going to run out of IPv4 space very quickly if the assignment of, 
> for instance, /29's to home users becomes standard procedure at ISP's - and 
> bruno's mail does indicate that this is already happening:
> 
> "[...]several new ISP in Europe are starting to offer "always on" Internet 
> access.

The interesting part is ofcourse not that people are offering it. The
interesting part is how many  do actually sign up? Always on Internet have
been around in Europe since the early '80:s. The price might have been
somewhat high for consumers though...:)

As I pointed out earlier and others as well - Maybe buy starting to use
the address space for what it was intended for (to provide a Internet
connection) we can get a real push to go for another addressing scheme
like IPv6 or IPv8 (just kidding). Or maybe something completly new.


Best regards,

- kurtis -

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