Marc Espie wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:17:14PM +0000, Jeroen Massar wrote: >> Also note that FT serves the whole country of France, you might not like >> them, but they also have a right to use the Internet ;) Most ISP's get >> only a /32 and there are millions of those. Getting a /19 is really >> something that only a few ISP's will be able to claim that they will >> actually be able to get customers for. > > Bullshit.
Do you have a valid argument for calling it bullshit? > We've had deregulation for a while now, and FT is just the > historical operator. There's no reason to treat them differently than > other ISPs. How are they treated differently then? They are just a LIR like every other ISP. They apparently requested address space, demonstrated their need for it, and got it allocated. Same procedure for every other ISP. Btw TELEKOM in Germany also got a /19, same premise: enough clients. Every other ISP that simply got a /32 prolly didn't do their homework and didn't request for more, but they always can do it, they just need to justify it. Also there are atm 5 other ISP's globally with /20's, 4x /21, etc... see http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/ > Them getting a whole hefty chunk of address space looks like > some political game on their part to try and keep their position, for which > they have no actual right these days. Wouldn't be the first time they try > to rig the game. Clearly they where able to convince RIPE NCC that they have enough customers that they will fill that amount of address space. Complain to RIPE if you think that it was not fair. I don't think that OpenBSD-misc is the ml for that ;) Greets, Jeroen [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
