Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:20:54PM +1300, Don Stokes wrote:
apnic-011 already says that, at least for addresses allocated in the NZGate timeframe. I haven't found any other APNIC document (expired or not) that states APNIC policy toward address ownership.
Assuming we all follow this then -- do we have allow people or users with small (eg. /26) networks to take them with them should they decide to move?
Allowing this _without_ any constraints would make fragmentation horrific.
Do you have a clause in your service contracts that states explicitly what the position is regarding IP numbers you assign to clients? Most ISPs do (and all should).
No idea... I speak only for myself, not for any company. I don't look at the legal bits where possible, thats what marketroids and legal people are for.
Does it matter?
Yes. If someone is allocated address space for which they are not specifically told whether or not it should be considered portable or not, and therefore they wish to take the network with them when they move providers, we could get considerable fragmentation when many people with small networks do this.
It does if anyone is allocating address space in new blocks without explicitly stating the "ownership" of addresses, but for the old addresses it just means that at worst the routing table space taken up by old addresses doesn't get any smaller.
I don't follow; surely we have a situation where providers in the past have carved up a say /20 for clients -- and when a client moves this /20 might then need to become sixeteen /24 routes (or a /21, a /22, a /23 and two /24 or whatever).
No. It's still a /20 with a single /24 hole punched in it. If the net ends up with a policy that only allows prefixes up to /20 on the backbone then the bozo who moves and won't renumber looses. He may 'own' the address space but it's no damn use to him. -- Mailto:Andy.Linton(a)netlink.net.nz Tel: +64 4 494 6162 Post: Netlink, PO Box 5358, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand -- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog