Joel,
Well, in most Pacific Islands, there is only one operator who is nearly
fully owned by the government, so the words "sole ISP" and "country"
can be interchanged. The countries there are islands, physically and
virtually.
When we try to apply for address space, we are usually told to apply
from the upstream ISP, but in this part of the world it is real easy to
change upstream ISP every year due to satellite link. Therefore to
avoid to redo the whole network IP every time pricing changes, it is
better to assign a set to a "country" whose population is around
100,000 people more often less than that.
Cheers
Joel M. Halpern wrote:
I am missing one thing. Why do "countries" need
allocations? Operators need address space. Operators in a
country need address space. But there is no reason that an operator
operating in a country, even if operating only in that country, needs
address space from an allocation directed to that country.
>From other messages I have seen, you probably are looking to do
something quite reasonable, but I can not quite determine what it
is.
Yours,
Joel M. Halpern
At 01:30 PM 11/18/2004, you wrote:
Paul Vixie wrote:
How long have folks been predicting ~5yr windows?
forever.
Not to diminish your table or anything, but markets don't work in
binary,
and the problem has been with access more than anything else.
i am directly aware of latent address space needs that are 50X larger
than
all of ipv4. geoff huston's note hit this on the head.
"even at /29..."
For the moment what I'm working on is on
ensuring that countries can get assigned a reasonable amount of IPv6
space. A lot of countries are below radar in the IPv6 assignement. When
you have a population of less than 100,000 and when the IPv6 minimum
allocation caters for every human, pig, horse, dog and grain of sand of
that country....
Yes this is a NIC problem, but I wanted to let you know. APNIC is aware
of the needs fo small countries in their constituency, I guess there is
a
similar problem in the carabean and other places...
Cheers
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