Re: Last Call: <draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt> (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 08:44, SM <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In Section 3:
>
>  "A Service Provider can number the interfaces in question from
>   legitimately assigned globally unique address space.  While this
>   solution poses the fewest problems, it is impractical because
>   globally unique IPv4 address space is in short supply."
>
> Unique IPv4 address space is not in short supply in some regions.  If it is
> globally in short supply, I gather that several regions have already reached
> their IPv4 Exhaustion phase.  I haven't seen any announcements about that.

http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/final-8
http://www.coisoc.org/index.php/2011/internet-society-statement-on-apnic-ipv4-depletion/
http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-exhaustion-details
http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=3592

>  "While the Regional Internet Registries (RIR) have enough address
>   space to allocate a single /10 to be shared by all Service Providers,
>   they do not have enough address space to make a unique assignment to
>   each Service Provider."
>
> The above is incorrect as RIRs are still providing unique IPv4 assignments
> to service providers that request IPv4 addresses.  On reading this draft, I
> conclude that as IPv4 addresses are nearly exhausted, the only option left
> is to deploy Carrier Grade NAT instead of requesting IPv4 addresses from a
> RIR.

Are you proposing that every ISP on the planet be given a /10 for
inside CGN use, rather than one single /10 being reserved for this
purpose?

Cheers,
~Chris


> For the determination of consensus, I do not support this proposal.
>
> Regards,
> -sm
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