Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> It's short sighted and silly to design your service around handing out 
> /64s to people and then you have to redesign it when demand for multiple 
> subnets come around. Design it around /56 to begin with, and you will 
> have solved the problem for the future, not just for now.

Then tell RIR's to quit insisting that /56's have SWIP's. They can't 
very well be dynamic in nature via PD if they are being SWIP'd.

Until then, /60 sounds fine. Allows higher capacity per /48 on a node 
and will give most customers more than they will ever use.


Jack