Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: > Exactly. I've seen this as well in both instances but haven't seen it on > mobile phones. It's something so obscure that you're going to have to > really want it to turn it on. I don't think the Port 25 example holds much > water here. Ma

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Temkin
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: Chuck Anderson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:31:38PM +0100, Matthias Leisi wrote: Mark Andrews schrieb: I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. It's just a extremely high growth period d

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: Chuck Anderson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:31:38PM +0100, Matthias Leisi wrote: Mark Andrews schrieb: I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:52:52 PST, Dave Temkin said: > Why must it be always "real" versus NAT? 99% of users don't care one > way or another. Would it be so hard for the carrier to provide a switch > between NAT and "real" IP if the user needs or wants it? You're almost always better off not p

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Temkin
Chuck Anderson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:31:38PM +0100, Matthias Leisi wrote: Mark Andrews schrieb: I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology change over bring in new functionalit

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:31:38PM +0100, Matthias Leisi wrote: > Mark Andrews schrieb: > > I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. > > It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology > > change over bring in new functionality. > > OTOH, Verizon is not the

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Matthias Leisi wrote: Mark Andrews schrieb: I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology change over bring in new functionality. OTOH, Verizon is not the only provider

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-10 Thread Matthias Leisi
Mark Andrews schrieb: > I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. > It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology > change over bring in new functionality. OTOH, Verizon is not the only provider of smartphone connectivity in the world. Most of them

RE: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-09 Thread Holmes,David A
gated users contained in the summarized 48 prefixes. Is this a common practice? If so is it a best practice? -Original Message- From: Mike Leber [mailto:mle...@he.net] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:39 PM To: David Conrad Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to ve

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-09 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <1234128761.17985.352.ca...@guardian.inconcepts.net>, Jeff S > Wheeler > writes: > > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:37 -0800, Aaron Glenn wrote: > > > NAT? why isn't Verizon 'It's the Network' Wireless using IPv6? > > > there should be

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > Sure, smart phones are becoming more popular. My ancient and crufty Nextel iDEN i530 phone, manufactured circa 2003, with a monochrome 4-line text display, and about as "dumb" as they get, gets assigned an IP address. Now, that IP address

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Mike Leber
David Conrad wrote: On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Aaron Glenn wrote: so if they don't deploy IPv6 then ('extremely high growth period'), when will they? Hint: how many of the (say) Alexa top 1000 websites are IPv6 enabled? haha, I went insane for a moment and though you said Freenix top 1000,

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Paul Wall wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Aaron Glenn wrote: >> NAT? why isn't Verizon 'It's the Network' Wireless using IPv6? >> there should be a FOIA-like method to see large >> allocation justifications > > Probably because Verizon Business isn't using

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Wall
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > What services require an IP, whether they can be supplied via NAT, how > soon "smart phone" adoption will bring IP to every handset ... all these > are good and valid points. However, they all distract from the glaring > and obvious reality

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Wall
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Aaron Glenn wrote: > NAT? why isn't Verizon 'It's the Network' Wireless using IPv6? > there should be a FOIA-like method to see large > allocation justifications Probably because Verizon Business isn't using it, unless you count a couple of lab GRE tunnels. Drive

RE: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Skywing
ch is necessarily going to be inherently customer-visible for all stages of progress. - S -Original Message- From: Aaron Glenn [mailto:aaron.gl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:37 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless On Sun, Feb 8,

RE: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Skywing
e of their customers. - S -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:48 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless This discussion about smartphones and the like was presuming that those devices all

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Aaron Glenn wrote: so if they don't deploy IPv6 then ('extremely high growth period'), when will they? Hint: how many of the (say) Alexa top 1000 websites are IPv6 enabled? Regards, -drc

RE: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Frank Bulk
08, 2009 3:58 PM To: Eliot Lear Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:45:51 +0100 Eliot Lear wrote: > On 2/8/09 5:32 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > Lastly, you've assumed that only a "smart phone" (not that the

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > >I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers. >It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology >change over bring in new functionality. so if they don't deploy IPv6 then ('extremely high growth

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1234128761.17985.352.ca...@guardian.inconcepts.net>, Jeff S Wheeler writes: > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:37 -0800, Aaron Glenn wrote: > > NAT? why isn't Verizon 'It's the Network' Wireless using IPv6? > > there should be a FOIA-like method to see large > > allocation justifications > Re

RE: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Buhrmaster, Gary
> Does ARIN lack sufficient resources to vet jumbo requests? I am fairly confident ARIN followed their policies. The existing policies allow anyone (including Verizon) to make a request for (and receive) a /9 with appropriate justification. If you do not like the policies, please participate in

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 14:37 -0800, Aaron Glenn wrote: > NAT? why isn't Verizon 'It's the Network' Wireless using IPv6? > there should be a FOIA-like method to see large > allocation justifications Realistically, I suppose Verizon Wireless is big enough to dictate to the manufacturers of handsets an

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: > Whatever happened to NAT? > > Jeff NAT? why isn't Verizon 'It's the Network' Wireless using IPv6? there should be a FOIA-like method to see large allocation justifications

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:45:51 +0100 Eliot Lear wrote: > On 2/8/09 5:32 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > Lastly, you've assumed that only a "smart phone" (not that the term > > is well defined) needs an IP address. I believe this is wrong. > > There are plenty of simpler phones (e.g. not a PDA, touch s

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Eliot Lear
On 2/8/09 5:32 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Lastly, you've assumed that only a "smart phone" (not that the term is well defined) needs an IP address. I believe this is wrong. There are plenty of simpler phones (e.g. not a PDA, touch screen, read your e-mail thing) that can use cellular data to WEP br

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> 2) If one company is likely to need four more /8's, and there are now >32 in the free pool man is IPv4 in trouble. It's going to happen soon enough anyway. >At this point it >would only take eight companies the size of verizon wireless to >exhaust the free pool WORLDWIDE. No ma

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Leo Bicknell: Lastly, you've assumed that only a "smart phone" (not that the term > is well defined) needs an IP address. I believe this is wrong. > There are plenty of simpler phones (e.g. not a PDA, touch screen, > read your e-mail thing) that can use cellular data to WEP browse, > or to fetch

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
I have no personal knowledge of this situation, so this is wild speculation. http://news.cnet.com/verizon-completes-alltel-purchase/ Verizon Wireless is going to be soon selling operations in 105 markets. It may well be that the IP addresses for those markets will be transfered to the new compa

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Joel Esler
Exactly. On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > Eliot Lear wrote: > > On 2/8/09 3:24 AM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > >> Sure, smart phones are becoming more popular. It's reasonable to assume > >> that virtually all cell phones will eventually have an IP address almost > >> all the

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Eliot Lear wrote: > On 2/8/09 3:24 AM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: >> Sure, smart phones are becoming more popular. It's reasonable to assume >> that virtually all cell phones will eventually have an IP address almost >> all the time. > > The numbers I keep seeing for so-called "smartphones" in the pre

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Eliot Lear
On 2/8/09 3:24 AM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: Sure, smart phones are becoming more popular. It's reasonable to assume that virtually all cell phones will eventually have an IP address almost all the time. The numbers I keep seeing for so-called "smartphones" in the press for U.S. and Europe are 49

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread James Hess
>> I have trouble understanding why an ARIN record for a network regularly >> receiving new, out-sized IPv4 allocations on the order of millions of >> OrgName:Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless >> CIDR: 97.128.0.0/9 >> Comment:Verizon Wireless currently has 44.3 Million >> Commen

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-07 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > Dear list, > > Since IPv4 exhaustion is an increasingly serious and timely topic > lately, I would like to point out something that interests me, and maybe > everyone else who will be spending a lot on Tylenol and booze when we > really do r

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-07 Thread Tim Eberhard
Any cell phone that uses data service to download a ringtone, wallpaper, picature, use their TV/radio webcast service, or their walkie talkie feature will use an IP address. In addition to that Verizon wireless sells their EVDO aircards for laptops. Given the size of their customer base it is not

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-07 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Whatever happened to NAT? Jeff On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > Dear list, > > Since IPv4 exhaustion is an increasingly serious and timely topic > lately, I would like to point out something that interests me, and maybe > everyone else who will be spending a lot on Tylenol