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Re: [lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself

  • To: Gert Doering < >
  • From: Ronald van der Pol < >
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:15:42 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 13:56:18 +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

> Alexander Gall has summarized it pretty well - if we want to give out
> /48s freely, then the quite conservative RIR->LIR allocation policy 
> currently in place *hurts*.

Very true if you mean that you cannot build a reasonable hierarchy.

> As for the argument "are universities ISPs"?  Yes, at least over here,
> a fair number of them are providing IP connectivity to the student's 
> hostels via leased line/ethernet, and to all other students via ISDN/Modem
> dialup.  So for all address management purposes, they are ISPs.

This is true in the Netherlands too. Yes, I think those should be treated
as ISPs, probably getting a prefix (>> /48) from their NRN.

	rvdp
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