In message <67D28817-D47B-468F-9212-186C60531140@internode.com.au>, Mark Newton writes:
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.
RFC1918 addresses are not the only source of private addresses. If you are giving out addresses behind a NAT then they are private address.
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?
Which is a good thing to do. If you are offering a (potentially) degraded service then the customer needs to be informed before they agree to the service. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org