On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:26:52AM +0000, Andy Linton wrote:
Who do you propose will pay the end users for the pain and real costs involved? The ISPs have the easy part of this renumbering. I don't see people renumbering because it's the right thing to do. They'll do it because they have to e.g. when they move ISP.
If, for whatever reason, it was decided a clean up of NZ address space was required, and everyone is given new numbers and a date by which they need to renumber by - then provided the time frame is reasonable, I don't see a problem, provided everyone does their own small part. The biggest renumbering headache I've seen is usually because of M$ crap, because you have to go through the painful process of click, point, click, type, point, type, point, type, etc. to change a single address - and if the box has 500 or so, ouch. Having all of NZ renumber is drastic (to say the least) and I don't seriously expect APNIC or indeed many other people will entertain this idea, but it still should be possible for people to attempt to aggregate their networks more efficiently. People know where the are small /24 holes in the address space, and they could make efforts to reclaim this space - which I think is only reasonable. However, that said, I'm sure many people when asked to do this will say, 'go away' - these a MY numbers or something similar. Renumbering isn't trivial - but it not rocket science either... -cw --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog