Re: [Int-area] Review of draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-05

[Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>]

Hi Eric,


> 	The second is that they can differentiate themselves by offering
> address allocation sizes that do not align well with other providers, in
> an attempt to lock-in customers who will find that they can anticipate
> administrative head-aches and extra costs if they ever decide they want 
> to go with a different service provider.  This is probably a bad thing.


Alternate service providers can then respond by matching the odd address space allocation, or providing their next quantum up.  This hurts addressing efficiency slightly, but is unlikely to be a real deterrent.

Regards,
Tony