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* [email protected] (Hank Nussbacher) [Tue 09 Nov 2004, 09:18 CET]: > I think you need to look at one of the authors - Nokia. Perhaps > 2001:490::/32 and 3FFE:8130::/28 are not enough for what they have in > mind. Perhaps someone from RIPE should sit down with Nokia (and > perhaps all the other cell makers) and find out what they truly want > and why these IETF drafts solve their problem. Perhaps just giving > them what they want (and think they will need) will make this all go > away? I remember a RIPE meeting a few years ago where a BT Cellnet representative seriously asked to become an RIR with an initial /8 allocation for use among mobile operators. If I recall correctly, he was quietly laughed out of the room - and rightly so (as existing RIRs are more than capable of handling any address request they might have). I'm pretty sure Nokia, not being a network operator, has little use for large amounts of address space. For a mobile operator, I assume a standard allocation should be enough; and if not I'm sure the RIR community is reasonable enough to listen to the mobile operator's arguments. -- Niels.
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