-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Huitema [mailto:huitema@windows.microsoft.com]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 4:24 PM
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum
Cc: multi6@ops.ietf.org
Subject: RE: Resolving geo discussions
We have had this discussion many times in the past 10 years. After
many
rounds of e-mail, the consensus generally is that if geo
is going to
happen, it will happen "bottom up" and be user driven.
This is news to me. I would really appreciate some pointers to
archives
of these past discussions.
Try the Big Internet mailing archives:
ftp://munnari.oz.au/big-internet/list-archive
For example, one
may see the chamber of commerce of lower Picardy request
a /32 from
RIPE, and use it to provides "independent" /48 addresses to its
members, using a combination of tunnels and arrangements
with local
ISP. In fact,
there are already a few virtual ISP operating under this model.
So if I want to do this in a slightly larger area, say everything
within a 20000 km radius of The Hague, I could get a larger address
block, say a /16?
Not really. You will be subject to the same slow-start
algorithm as regular ISP. You probably will get a /32 first,
and when you will have demonstrated that you serve more than
N sites, you will get a /30, etc.
-- Christian Huitema