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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ARIN?
At 11:58 AM 11/7/98 -0600, Phil Howard wrote: >> > I don't think arin would object to you giving out static ip's to >> > those of your users who specifically requst this service. ARIN >> > will object if you want to assign a static ip every win95 Dialup >> > person who justs uses the net to surf and check his mail. >> >> Unless you are @home who they have permitted to assign all of their users >> static IPs. > >I wonder if @home has sufficiently proven that it is necessary to actually >give out static IPs to cable modem subscribers. Considering that DHCP is >there, I would have my doubts. The modem is connected 24x7. What is the purpose of Dynamic vs. Static *ASIDE FROM MAKING RENUMBERING EASIER*. >Regardless of how the market gets sliced up to little providers or going >all to a few big ones, issuing static IPs one to a household in North >America alone is going to eat a huge chunk of address space by the time >the world is all wired up. There better have been some kind of requirement >that the space they got can be static for now, but has to become dynamic >in the future as they expand, such as by getting no more space until they >show that the peak number of addresses in concurrent use warrants the >increase. That's the point - with @Home a static address IS concurrently in use. You get your cable modem and its up, period. Caveat - I'm discussing 2-way 24x7 @home customers. There are markets where the service is 1-way, I believe, and in THOSE markets, dynamic addressing makes more sense, because they're NOT all up 24x7 (if they are, the Cable-ISP's modem pool is going to get large) >Once concern I have with so many static IPs in use is how do they grow >their network and keep the routes aggregated? If one area has a /24 and >grows to need more, do you give it an arbitrary 2nd /24 or make it a /23? >Are there going to be hundreds of small announcements from them or just >a few or one? At least with dynamic (e.g. DHCP) you can renumber a whole >area relatively easily and keep it aggregated. That's one advantage of DHCP vs. static, BUT it isn't a technical issue that ARIN needs to concern itself with in regard to address space allocation, its simply an issue internally as how (not) to piss off your customers. D
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