Hi, On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:29:14AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
As has been pointed out by others, why bother accepting the minimum when you can simply (and honestly) claim 6RD?
Because it's big enough? Speaking as the LIR contact for a smallish ISP - we received a /32 from RIPE, and we expect this to be sufficient to number all our customers (and all their friends) from it. We're a hosting and business ISP these days, and we just don't have 100.000+ customers to worry about. There would not be any benefit in a larger allocation (except when trying to win ****-size boasting), but it would most likely move us to a larger billing category at RIPE. Which is not a huge amount of money, if there were a benefit to it - but if all the reason is "because we like numbers!", my management would not be happy with me. So - permit the question: why should a LIR bother explaining their 6rd deployment plans (and I'm sure that the IPRAs would ask some questions) *and* pay more, just to get a bit larger huge amount of numbers...? Gert Doering -- LIR contact -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 144438 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279