25 Feb
2012
25 Feb
'12
1:36 p.m.
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