There has been tomes on this topic. There will continue to be many more.
That is because many of you continue in trying to defend the following
concept.
customer subnet bits == isp customers bits
So now, the ISP is supposed to put some effort and gain more bits. Why
not the customer?
Its inherently suspicious. Because its inherently wrong - for the ISP,
and possibly for the address space as well.
Indulge me as I wax poetic.
I venture to say that proponents want to see everyone else have the
service of their own dreams. When broadband rolled to the masses with a
single ipv4 address per subscriber, forget about routing, their hearts
broke. The new common denominator was a far cry from what their
experience was. The division of internet into different classes of
netizens a bitter pill to swallow. You are only one budget cut away from
joining the ho-poloi. Its quite scary.
Hence the determination that no user should ever have to go without
enough addresses ever again. A new common denominator, now is the time
to get it accepted!
It will be like the old days, a class C with every leased line! Forever!
And the ISPs?
They have enough to get started and they can get more if they put the
effort in.
So all the rational and logical debate is pointless. Gut feelings,
philosophy and emotions are what is at stake and those tend not to
respond well to things like logic and reason.
Joe
Owen DeLong wrote:
And I’m saying you’re ignoring an important part of reality.
Whatever ISPs default to deploying now will become the standard to which
application developers develop.