[address-policy-wg] IPv6 allocations for 6RD
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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Mon Nov 30 17:05:06 CET 2009
Hi, On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:45:52AM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote: > Ahem, future innovation with IPv6 (whatever that is, beyound disabling > insecure protocol features) needs to take VSLM into account. It's > also likely that the requirement that all unicast addresses most be > within at least a /64 will be eventually overturned because those bits > could be used in a more useful fashion. This is well out of scope for any address policy discussion going on today. When and if the IETF decides that non-/64-subnets are a desirable feature, it makes sense to discuss the consequences on address policy here - before that, it's a waste of bits. Please let's be focussed on the question at hand - which side do we want to err to? - be very conservative in giving out IPv6 address space, risking that IPv6 will just never take off - for fear of running out of space "if we happen to very radically move the boundary by 8 bits multiple times" - be very liberal in giving out IPv6 address space, risking that we run out of FP001 sooner than expected, and that we will have to do a more restrictive policy later on - but doing our best to actually get IPv6 out and deployed Whatever we decide, history will tell us that we have been wrong in our predictions... Given the original question: as far as I understood the question, the RIPE NCC IPRAs consider the request to be inside the boundaries permitted by policy, if a bit larger than "typical". So we don't really need a formal policy change here, just guidance to the IPRAs "this is a good thing, give them the address space" or "this is not a good thing, refuse!". Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 144438 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279
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