On 2/25/12 10:13 AM, Brian Kantor wrote:
At our current level of usage, perhaps it's enough to register only the first 4 or 8 or 16 addresses in the block so that experiments can begin, and register more as activity grows.
I think that makes sense. The flag for this might be to register the 0th address, which would indicate that the gateway operator intends subnetting.
In effect, this makes each router/gateway operator a delegated coordinator for his subnet block, as all further allocation from his block has to be coordinated with him.
Is this getting too complicated?
I don't think so. Every gateway operator has different ideas about how to run the gateway. This will also reduce the newbie load on the coordinators as the gateway op would be able to counsel individual users on choices of domain name etc. which would then be passed along to the coordinator. It can also be a simpler exchange because the gateway op already knows the range of IPs from which to assign new hosts.
-- David Josephson