In the past, address requests were not examined for reasonableness. An organization could request hundreds or thousands of
addresses, even if they had only a couple dozen machines. This resulted in very inefficient use of address space; many
addresses were allocated, but never used.
Now the Internet is growing at an amazing pace. It has become clear that if address space is not used carefully we will run out.
So a new Internet Address Allocation Policy has been established to assure that addresses are available to all who need them.
The current policy says that address allocations should be of sufficient size to meet only current and near-term needs. It is no
longer considered appropriate to issue addresses based on expectations of future growth.
Prado follows this policy when assigning addresses for customer use. By following the policy we assure that when we, and our
customers, need more addresses, we will be able to get them.
The exact number of addresses assigned to your company will depend on the number of machines that you have and on the
organization of your network. As your network grows you will be assigned additional addresses.
There is no charge for ip addresses.
It is not enough to have machines, addresses, and an Internet connection. For traffic to actually reach your computers, from all
around the world, there must be routing entries for your addresses in the routers of all the backbone providers.
The addresses that Prado assigns for your use come from a larger block that has been assigned to our backbone provider.
Because our provider obtains addresses in very large blocks there is little danger that your addresses will not be globally
routed. There is no such guarantee when you use addresses from another source.
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