In message <67d28817-d47b-468f-9212-186c60531...@internode.com.au>, Mark Newton writes: > > On 20/04/2010, at 1:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > Changing from a public IP address to a private IP address is a big > > change in the conditions of the contract. People do select ISP's > > on the basis of whether they will get a public IP address or a > > private IP address. > > Seems to me your objection is based on whether or not the customer > gets a public address vs a private address. > > There's no need for NAT pools to be RFC1918. Pretty sure everyone > is going to get a public address of some form... it just won't > necessarily be globally unique to them.
RFC1918 addresses are not the only source of private addresses. If you are giving out addresses behind a NAT then they are private address. > As for jurisdictional issues: This particular Australian ISP amended > its T&C document to give us the discretion of providing LSN addresses > about two years ago. Will we need to? Perhaps not. But if we do, the > T&C's are already worked out. Looking ahead in time and forecasting > future risks is one of the things businesses are supposed to do, right? Which is a good thing to do. If you are offering a (potentially) degraded service then the customer needs to be informed before they agree to the service. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
