[address-policy-wg] IPv6 allocations for 6RD
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Florian Frotzler
florian at frotzler.priv.at
Tue Dec 1 13:54:43 CET 2009
Jim, I understand your sceptiscism but in the end the dog will never be a LIR, he will always be an endsite and the numeber of LIRs will always be finite. Cheers, Florian 2009/12/1 Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com>: > On 1 Dec 2009, at 12:16, Florian Frotzler wrote: > >> I can tell you that being forced to implement multiple SP prefixes >> might be a show-stopper for a numerous of ISPs to implement 6RD, >> including Swisscom, this is fact. It is a huge operational burden, >> especially for the IT stack, and means $$$ needed to be spend. > > That may well be true Florian. I have no way of knowing because the case for > these 6RD allocations compared to other approaches hasn't been made clearly > enough. > >> So do we want to hamper the v6 rollout because we like to conserve some >> bits >> in an almost endless address space? > > Of course nobody wants to hamper v6 deployment. But that does not mean we > should have a cavalier attitude to v6 allocations. It troubles me when > people say v6 is "almost endless". It's not. And it will run out fairly > quickly if the world and its dog can get a /24 (or more) from an RIR simply > by saying "it's for 6RD" or whatever might be tomorrow's > flavour-of-the-month v6 transition/deployment scheme. > > I'm reminded of the parallels of the early days of the Internet when Class B > nets were automatically handed out by the NIC from the "almost endless" > supply of IPv4. > > Please note that I'm not opposed to /24 allocations (or higher) for 6RD. If > there's a clear need for them, then it should happen. Nobody should contest > that. However the justification for these requests seems somewhat fuzzy. > Which explains my caution/scepticism. >
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