[address-policy-wg] 2008-02 Moved to Review Phase (Assigning IPv6 PA to Every LIR)

On 19 mrt 2008, at 15:58, Filiz Yilmaz wrote:

> If this proposal reaches consensus, RIPE NCC will conduct a one-time
> operation to allocate an IPv6 block to every LIR that does not have
> any existing IPv6 allocation.


Although I don't see much harm in the proposal from a technical  
perspective, I don't expect this to have much impact in de the actual  
deployment. And it might even be a waist of address space, because by  
the time IPv6 has finally made it to the edge some of those LIR's  
probably don't even exist anymore, maybe causing some swamp leftovers  
from experiments.

Anybody who want's to run IPv6 can do so by requesting an assignment,  
it's not that hard and we might even get some documentation which if  
anonymized and aggregated could give some valuable insights on where  
IPv6 really stands.

The whole idea seems more of a political statement "it's not are fault  
IPv4 has ran out" as it will be a solution to what we really try to  
solve, the fact that IPv6 isn't rolling the way we hoped it would do.  
I can tell from experience this isn't the lack of address space or the  
procedure to get it assigned and/or routed. v6 ain't rolling because  
there still are some gaps on the edge, it's hard to find the 40 USD  
dsl-modem which runs IPv6 and does it in a way it will work on  
multiple aggregation platforms so you as an ISP won't get vendorlocked  
and the customer who wants/needs another CPE can simply buy one around  
the corner, knowing for sure it will work. That's where the pressure  
needs to be and we should focus on, RFC 4241 is a nice starting point  
for it.

If you want to market IPv6, print some brochure and make it a nice  
powerpoint presentation, if you want politics and show you really  
care, let's show the industry can act as a whole and this week all  
call our favorite salesrep from our favorite vendor and ask them for  
the stuff _you_ need to get _your_  part working.

Groet,

MarcoH