North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Impact of paying for address space
Phil Howard supposedly said: > > With there being a fee structure coming into place for obtaining address > space, businesses are going to end up being more conservative with their > space requests. Maybe. I suspect many will. If you expect to assign > a /17 worth of space over the next year, why ask for all /17 of it now. > Why not get a /19 each quarter as needed. With the fee structure in > place, there would be less panic about space becoming too scarce. > > Now if this does take place, and I believe it will although I am not sure > to what scale, that will mean that each business and ISP will have more > smaller prefixes. That means more BGP announcements and larger tables and > an impact on routers. > > Thoughts? > This assumes that ARIN won't be giving you /19 out of a reserved /17 (or /16) and then giving you the other half of the /18, then the other half of the /17, etc, so all you need to do is change your prefix length not the number of announcements. Also your plan doesn't work so well, since ARIN will be charging you a member ship fee based on your expected *yearly* allocation. ---> Phil
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