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

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

On 2010-08-21 10:45, Tony Li wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. The market will provide. Of course, I agree with Fred that
we should stick to nibble boundaries.

     Brian