|
North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Internic address allocation policy
>Speaking from a (large) user organization. I am very concerned about >having the ISPs performing address allocation, particularly aggregating >addresses. As a user, I want to be able to change my service provider >if I get a better deal from a competitor or am having service >difficulties with my current provider. Today's technology for managing >addresses on individual computers makes it very hard for an >organization to renumber. Literally every computer administrator needs >to be in the loop. This can be a large loop when you have 13,000+ >independently managed machines (like we do). > >How do we users get our say to ensure that an addressing architecture >doesn't come into existence which tends to lock us into a particular >provider? The entire point behind CIDR was to allow flexible sized blocks of address announcements via BGP. The method of sending CIDR blocks to a provider should not have any direct relation to the provider's ability to handle "defections" of individual networks within the block. I understand your concern, but it really is pretty orthogonal to the problem of getting enough CIDR blocks to providers to start with... -george william herbert [email protected]
|