Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald at Alvestrand.no>]

At 10:58 08.12.99 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote:

> >From ARIN's policy: "Addresses for dial-up lines should be assigned from
> the SLA block. It is expected that longer prefixes should be used for
> non-permanent, single-user connections." How will providers interpret
> this? ARIN's policy says "The minimum assignment to end-user
> organizations is a /48." But how does one define "end-user customer?"

A /48 leaves 16 bits for subnetting, before you hit the 64 bits of flatspace.

>  If
> cable modem and DSL users (perhaps even dialups) do get this much space,
> I think we'll all be very happy to be able to do without NAT. Until IPv6
> service is offered for dialup and cable/DSL, we can just guess.

That's for sure.

                   Harald

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