[address-policy-wg] Registration of IPv6 DHCPv6-PD pools

Hi Daniel,

On 09/10/2009 11:30, "Daniel Roesen" <dr at cluenet.de> wrote:

> it must register assignment information in a
> database, accessible by RIRs as appropriate.

[...]
 
> I'm not sure what the implications of above policy is, especially in
> regards to the last sentence, "Information is registered at
> the granularity of End Site assignments.". Given that the End Site
> identity changes dynamically in a relatively high frequency, and
> considering $BIGNUM in the 6 to 7 figure range, it certainly won't be
> sensible pumping a $BIGNUM count of /56 inet6nums into the RIPE DB, all
> with "descr: dynamic end site network". Unfortunately it seems that this
> is actually required ny the policy though, wether in the RIPE DB or a DB
> operated by the LIR in question, accessible to the NCC.

My interpretation the text of the policy different from yours. It does not
say that assignments must be registered in the RIPE database, just that the
database has to be accessible by RIRs. This is presumably to allow the RIPE
NCC to assess you for your next allocation when your allocation is 'full'.

I also think that if there is a highly dynamic movement of prefixes between
subscribers in the pool then it would make most sense to register the pool
rather than the end user, just like you do for IPv4. I suspect that most
ISPs treat pool of dynamic IPv4 addresses as the site and the subscribers as
users connected to that site. Does this need to change for IPv6?

This is just my interpretation, though.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda