[address-policy-wg] IPv6 addresses to transit-providers
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Tim Streater
tim.streater at dante.org.uk
Wed Mar 2 15:11:16 CET 2005
At 10:30 02/03/2005, Jon Lawrence wrote: >On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:17, Hans Petter Holen wrote: >> >> Whait if I am (mainly) anIPv6 transit provider with 201 customers - all >> beeing LIR on their own: >> - I cannot get address space from my upstream because I have none or >> several depending on my size and definition of "up" >> - I cant make a plan to assigh 200 /48s since all my customers are LIRs >> on their own >> - I am hardly an end site ? >> >> how do I get adresses under the current policy ? >> If I cannot, how do we modify the policy to alow me to get adresses ? >> >> This is an excellent point to show were the addressing policies puts >> limitations on the structure of the ISP industry unless we are careful. >> >IMHO, this is what is wrong with the current policy. It says you should 'PLAN' >to assign 200 /48s it doesnot say you 'WILL' assign. >In order to obey the letter of the policy you could say that you 'PLAN' to >assign each of your customers a /48 - whether they use it is entirely upto >them (as they've got their own allocation they would probably never use >the /48 from you). >This would get you an allocation and be obeying the letter of the policy. >You're not strictly lying, but it is a completely pointless use of address >space. It's also a dopey piece of administrative b/s which has no value. Much better that the policy be designed to cover cases like this and encourage people to be honest. That way the database models reality a bit better. -- Tim
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