Criteria for initial PA Allocation

In message <002101c0e301$8b591f00$0600000a at hph>, "Hans Petter Holen" writes:
>| >I think it makes sense - if you are not able to fill a /22, your network
>| >is "smallish".  So using PA space and renumbering when changing ISPs is
>| >not *that* hard, if done properly (DHCP, DNS, no hard-coded IP addresses
>| >anywhere).
>|
>| I know several companies who would be willing to renumber once per year
>| as long as they can be multihomed...
>
>Why should I have to renumber once a year to be multi-homed ?

I'm not saying you should, I'm saying people are willing to it.

To me that indicates that we are not looking at the problem right
now, but on a symptom of the >real< problem.

I think the solution to the real problem is to find a better method
for assignment of routable IPs to multihomed customers.

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