Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

Joe Maimon wrote:
> Joe Greco wrote:
>
> > One of the goals of providing larger address spaces was to reduce (and
> > hopefully eliminate) the need to burn forwarding table entries where
> > doing so isn't strictly necessary.  When we forget this, it leads us
> > to the same sorts of disasters that we currently have in v4.
> >
> > ... JG
>
> And if you are encouraging /48 handouts, /32 isnt large enough to
> prevent that on the global level.

What remains to be seen is what will happen when someone says "hey, my
/32 is full, I need another one". Will it be:

a) Sure, here's another /32, have fun!
b) You didn't subnet very efficiently by current standards even though
it was encouraged in the past; try to reclaim some space internally.

~Seth