North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Michael Dillon wrote: > > Given the number of new ISPs that come to them for provider independent > > addresses, they isn't enough IPv4 address space to do the above with. > > Are you sure of this? Even if they start allocating out of the former > Class A space? > > After all, getting a reserved /16 out of the former Class A space > wouldn't exactly be free because you would need to buy a NAT in order to > avoid renumbering down the road so not *ALL* ISP's are going to demand > one of these. And it doesn't hurt to publicize the existence of NAT > technology either, because if ISP's know that NAT's exist they are more > likely to deploy them at customer sites along with RFC1918 addresses. But that's not what you said. Given that Internic gets about 50-60 address requests a week, if you reserve /16 for each, you can do the math. I guess this would force the deployment of IPv6 much sooner than currently projected. -dorian
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