On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:20:01PM +0000, Ryan O'Connell wrote:
On 25/11/2004 17:47, Owen DeLong wrote:
Why do people keep talking about 200 sites? This is a fallacy.
If you're not assigning IP addresses to other users, (I.e. you're an Enterprise rather than an ISP) you need 200 sites. (As you're "allowed" one /48 per site, and need 200 /48s to get an assignment.)
Wrong. 200 "other organizations". There is one /48 per site per organization allowed without justification. So if you have one building with let's say 10 different departments (== organizations!), you can assign 10 /48 to this building, no problem. As this word "organization" is not defined, just be creative in what you call an organization. And as this makes this whole 200-orgs constraint pathetic, there is an effort underway (or even already agreed upon?) at least in RIPE region, to just scratch it completely. So it boils down to: - you're a LIR (== you pay) - you will assign to other "organizations". Definition of "organization" is up to you. So to be honest, it boils down to "be a LIR" for any mid/large company. "Only" the small ones will have real problem, but we're used to that, eh?
RIPE policy is pretty much identical to ARIN.
Jep. See: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/rir-comp-matrix-rev.html chapter 3.1 Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0