Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: New IPv6 Address Block Allocated to RIPE NCC

[Daniel Roesen <]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Vincent Gillet wrote:
> > The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2003:0000::/18
> > from the IANA in January 2005.
> 
> Yep, and 50% of this allocation as already been allocated to one LIR.
> 
> I am not used to see 50% of IANA block allocated to LIR, but i
> assume that it is new address-policy rules i was not aware of !

Those are in place since longer. Take customer count and HD-Ratio
and do the maths. It's simple, and DTAG would probably have qualified
for more if they really wanted.

France Telecom has a couple of million customers too I guess. A
/20 can be justified by approx. 3.2 million, a /19 needs ~5.5mio.


Regards,
Daniel

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