Hi, On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:02:31PM +0100, Elmar K. Bins wrote: [..]
I believe the reason for this is conservation. Any LIR is entitled to receiving a /20 up-front (allocation; certainly, assignments from this need to be made explicitly), so handing out PI /24s where no more space is needed looks like the better alternative.
Of course, the right to the first allocation might be removed. This has not happened yet.
Sidetracking: actually we tried that (added criteria for the first IPv4 allocation) - result? People got 'me a handful of /24 PI networks, paying some small saving on the address space side with more pollution on the routing table size. So we changed it back. Policies interact. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71007 (66629) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234