On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 20:53 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: [ .. story about routing .. ]
Anyway, I wish you guys could bring this kind of flexibility to the IPv6 world. 8-)
Too bad a lot of people seem to mix up Address Space with Routing Slots. The RIR's are for the first, not the latter (yet). RIPE and all the other RIR's assign/allocate _Address Space_ to their clients based on their need. How/if that _Address Space_ is actually _Routed_ is not of any concern to the RIR's, that is the task of the one who received the _Address Space_ to make it be like they require it. If you want to make organisations use less routing slots then let them pay for it (business opportunity) and/or filter them out. Unless in the RIPE NCC case RIPE membership demands from RIPE NCC that they start acting as the ITU-TT does. But that is nearly impossible fortunately unless some big ISP's put their hands together and force all you little folks out of the routing tables. (Which will result most likely that small ISP's team up and we get a very cool split internet, but at least with globally unique address space, pfew ;) Greets, Jeroen