Re: Internic address allocation policy

[George Herbert <gherbert () crl com>]

> Speaking from a (large) user organization. I am very concerned about
> having the ISPs performing address allocation, particularly aggregating
> addresses. As a user, I want to be able to change my service provider
> if I get a better deal from a competitor or am having service
> difficulties with my current provider. Today's technology for managing
> addresses on individual computers makes it very hard for an
> organization to renumber. Literally every computer administrator needs
> to be in the loop. This can be a large loop when you have 13,000+
> independently managed machines (like we do).
>
> How do we users get our say to ensure that an addressing architecture
> doesn't come into existence which tends to lock us into a particular
> provider?

The entire point behind CIDR was to allow flexible sized blocks
of address announcements via BGP.  The method of sending CIDR
blocks to a provider should not have any direct relation to the
provider's ability to handle "defections" of individual networks
within the block.  I understand your concern, but it really is
pretty orthogonal to the problem of getting enough CIDR blocks to
providers to start with...

-george william herbert
gherbert () crl com