At 11:01 PM 2/11/96 -0800, Robert Du Gaue wrote:
No circularity about it. First, you need customers. Second, if you already have enough customers, you get your own IP space.
Until then, you get a small chunk out of somebody else's bigger IP space.
Yeah right. You try that with a growing business. Then when you finally get enough users and corporate customers to 'justify' your own 64block and then give them the news that their entire networks will now need to be reconfigured how do you think they'll react. If I was that big, the amount of money it would cost me and my end-users would not be trivial.
Creating a consortium [akin to the NAP model] of small ISP's could easily resolve this problem, if all address space allocated to each ISP was contiguous and could be aggregated to a larger prefix. This has been suggested on numerous occasions. - paul