Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

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In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0102071649210.7706-100000 at shell1.phx.gblx.net>
, David R Huberman <huberman at gblx.net> writes
>> In my experience, most residential customers are quite happy to use private 
>> IP addresses
>
>I must respectively disagree, and disagree vehemently. In my experiences,
>residential broadband customers, paying high monthly fees, demand publicly
>routable IP address space, citing both the very 'limitations' of private
>address space you articulate (e.g. Napster and other IP-dependent
>applications) and sales pitches of other providers who are willing to give
>them publicly unique address space just to close the deal.
[...]
>More importantly, the conservationist's desire to promote the use of
>private address space should not take precedence over real-world business
>concerns. Market demand for residential DSL is high, and in many markets,
>IPs have become a selling point.

This debate sounds very like the static v dynamic IP debate for dialups.
The people saying "NAT is good enough" are like the people saying
"dialup customers don't need static IP". Well, such people are wrong.

My opinion: it is not RIPE's job to restrict the type of service that an
ISP provides in the name of "IP conservation". Conservation is
important, but it is done by ensuring good practice, not by imposing
arbitrary rules that prevent ISPs from providing innovative services.

I'm agnostic on the /29 proposal, though I suspect it will save time and
effort all round. But residential ADSL customers should be able to get
reasonable amounts of IP space (and /30 is *not* reasonable) without
significant pain.

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