[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] IPv6 access to K-root

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <]

On 24-feb-05, at 20:04, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-rootservers.html
> "Under this policy, each (current or future) Internet DNS root server
> (as listed in the root-servers.net zone) in the RIPE region will be
> assigned a block of IPv6 address space for purposes of root server
> operations. The size of the block shall be the same as the size of the
> minimum allocation to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) valid at the 
> time
> of the root server assignment."
So who authorized this?

It looks a lot like the RIPE NCC doesn't have to stick to its own rules 
when it doesn't feel like it.

And it's extremely wasteful to use 2^96 addresses when only 1 is needed.