Thus spake "Roger Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(we are looking at something between 500 and upto 10 000 or
more unique ULA-C/G blocks for or network and use)
That's going to get expensive, no matter how little the central authority
charges. Well, unless the central authority does bulk discounts, but I see
no reason they would since there's no economy of scale in issuing thousands
of prefixes that can't be aggregated, unlike aggregatable PI/PA space.
I guess other enterprises see this the same way. They simply
want INTERNAL unique IP addresses with global reverse DNS
options, nothing less, nothing more. They probably wont bother
to become LIR just for internal IP, their ISP(s) provide them
with their internet connectivity, and they can probably easy
justify to get PI if they want that.
RIPE hasn't caught up to ARIN yet, apparently. ARIN provides for direct PI
assignments to end users with very minimal qualifications and no need to
become an LIR (which get a /32 at minimum). /48 is the minimum direct
assignment size, and while you do have to "justify" a shorter prefix, all
requests are approved. Ebay, for instance, just got a /41. And, while
there's a nontrivial fee for the initial assignment, the annual maintenance
(regardless of how large the block is) is only $100/yr. I doubt your
central authority is going to charge less than that for 10,000+ distinct
blocks.
AfriNIC, I've read, has a similar policy except that the prefix must be
advertised publicly within one year; ARIN has no requirement that the prefix
_ever_ be advertised.
I do not see a requirement to pass ULA-C/G merely because some RIRs have
failed to meet their respective communities' needs. If you're unhappy with
what RIPE offers, either show up and propose policy changes or
(less-preferred) route around the failure and get space from ARIN.
S
Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything
CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
K5SSS --Isaac Asimov
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