Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

As an employee of a large broadband provider, I agree with the
recommendation of allowing ISPs the ability to provide residential
subscribers multiple IP addresses without having the subscriber provide
usage-based requirements.

It doesn't scale to extend the rules that apply to commercial end users
to residential subscribers. This would be equivalent to a tier 1 ISP
having to manage the justification of IP address requests of 3million
tier 2 ISPs. It doesn't scale.

The subscriber should not just be assigned /29 worth of address space
when they sign up for the service whether they need it or not. However,
if the subscriber sign's up for the service requesting 2 or 3 CPE
addresses, they shouldn't have to submit a RIPE-141 form or provide some
other justification. It should simply be a service that the ISP can
provide.

We have many subscribers with multiple CPE addresses - however, that
doesn't necessarily mean they have their own subnet. In a broadband
cable environment, the subscribers off of the same downstream shares the
same broadcast domain. The downstream is assign /24 which the
subscribers are addressed out of. A subscriber with two CPE's may not
have consecutive IP addresses. Would this mean the subscriber would have
to register each /32? Or that the ISP has to ensure that the subscriber
gets consecutive addresses (that would be a huge operational overhead
for the ISP).  The ISP should be responsible of ensuring the /24 is
being effectively utilized. And this can be done the same way it is
today for one CPE as it can for multiple. 

-Judith