Re: ISP customer assignments

[Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net>]

On 20/10/2009, at 3:10 PM, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 03:07:39PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote:
> > On 20/10/2009, at 3:02 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
> >
> > > plus want the ability to take their address
> > > space with them when they change ISPs (because there are too many
> > > devices and applications that insist on having hard-coded IP  
> > > addresses
> > > instead of using DNS, and because DNS tends to get cached more often
> > > than you'd sometimes like.
> >
> > That's why we have Unique Local Addresses.
>
>         but Nathan,  they are only statistically unique.

Sure, but I don't think that changes my point.

Also if you want to increase your chances of uniqueness (which are  
already pretty good if you're not using subnet 0 or 1 or whatever) you  
can jump on to somewhere on the sixxs site and announce that you're  
using a specific ULA prefix.

--
Nathan Ward