MIR proposal

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:13:03PM +0100, Stephen Burley wrote:
> Ok the proposal.
[..]

I can understand your needs, and your proposal is a way to tackle it.

The problems do not only arise on "multinational scale", though.  We're
a small-to-medium ISP/LIR (with only about 1.5 /16's), and we're also
facing the fact that we'd like to do better hierarchical routing, facing
a structure of independent re-sellers that again have their own
re-sellers, all of them getting their IP addresses from us.

So what I could imagine is a less formal organization structure without
a "MIR" - but permit LIRs, under certain circumstances, to do 
sub-allocations, like "*allocate* a /22 to this reseller and /21 to
that one".

Maybe a combination of both.  A MIR + LIR structure for the Really Huge
networks, and LIR + sub-allocations for smaller networks with a need
(or the desire) for hierarchical structure.

And yes, this is also very much needed for IPv6.  Getting a /35 and
having to hand out individual /48's to customers of customers of ours 
isn't going to build proper hierarchical routing.

Gert Doering
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