On 20/04/2010, at 1:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
Changing from a public IP address to a private IP address is a big change in the conditions of the contract. People do select ISP's on the basis of whether they will get a public IP address or a private IP address.
Seems to me your objection is based on whether or not the customer gets a public address vs a private address. There's no need for NAT pools to be RFC1918. Pretty sure everyone is going to get a public address of some form... it just won't necessarily be globally unique to them. As for jurisdictional issues: This particular Australian ISP amended its T&C document to give us the discretion of providing LSN addresses about two years ago. Will we need to? Perhaps not. But if we do, the T&C's are already worked out. Looking ahead in time and forecasting future risks is one of the things businesses are supposed to do, right? Regards, - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223