@ChrisSerella wrote:
As I said in a post you can lease from another owner. There are market places for exactly that scenario. Pricing may be a factor, I guess it come's down to whether or not you want to pay the cost and obviously as stated if PN support it.
Have you seen that with IPv6 though? I can't imagine what the motivation for doing so would be, for all parties really, and I've never seen residential ISPs hosting address ranges for customers that haven't come from their own blocks.
You realise plusnet, or at the very least their edge routers support and are advertising ipv6 addressing.
Indeed, and they've been doing that for a good 10 years or so now. It makes it all the more disappointing that, notwithstanding the trial, we haven't seen much other movement other than that. Rather worrying is that they haven't increased their /32 allocation to the larger /29 that encompasses it which they can do without charge and simply by asking RIPE. This suggests to me they probably haven't done much in the way of planning their IPv6 addressing strategy yet as I would've expected them to do this as their first step to give them more freedom and options for how they're going to carve it all up.
Of course those could just be for some internal services at PN. and not meant for consumers.
I'd expect both (and, incidentally, the trial prefixes came from that subnet) and they'd have to have very strong justification for obtaining additional address space if they weren't going to use their existing allocation for both infrastructure and customers.
In any case, I look forward to the IPV6 roll out, if and when they do roll out I will look at their options for getting blocks. probably not much in terms of home packages but I guess I could always switch to a business deal, last I checked the packages were basically the same in pricing and specs.
Yes, it'll be interesting (in the Chinese curse sense of the term!) to see what their addressing strategy will be. I fear an unnecessarily compromised approach to residential addressing with more freedoms being a paid-for 'luxury' offering of business packages. I live in hope that those concerns turn out to be unwarranted though.
