Re: [address-policy-wg] IPv6 assignment for the RIPE meetingnetwork

[Nick Hilliard nick@localhost]

Andrei Robachevsky wrote:
> That is exactly the problem we are trying to solve. To do that it
> appears we need #1, 2 and 3 sorted out as you rightly noted.

Ok, good, so let's say for the sake of argument that 2006-01 is passed as
policy and PI IPv6 space becomes available, and that the RIPE NCC applies
for and is assigned a /48 for internal infrastructural needs - i.e.
replacing the PA /48 currently assigned for the purpose by SARA.

If the meetings organisation people within the RIPE NCC then apply for a
separate /48 PI for use for RIPE meetings, will the registration services
department then be in a position to assign a separate /48 PI block for
meetings under existing assignment guidelines?

More generally, if Organisation X already holds IPv6 space, whether PA or
PI, and where:

1. they are not using the entire address block for their infrastructural needs,
2. they intend to organise an event which requires a separate IPv6 address
block for routing purposes,
3. the total number of /64s required for both their normal infrastructural
needs and their event requirements does not exceed their existing ipv6
assignment
4. that assignment is either for a once-off or a periodically recurring meeting

then in this situation, would the RIPE NCC registration department be happy
to assign an ipv6 address block for that purpose?  My take on this is
probably not. But it would be helpful to get a formal opinion from this
from the RIPE NCC.

two notes:

- I've excluded ipv4 and asns from this position, because I think that they
can probably be assigned under existing guidelines: ASNs because of the
multihoming requirements if the organisation does not already hold an ASN,
and IPv4 because end-users are assigned on the basis of numerical
requirement for day-to-day needs, and if they organise a temporary event,
then that numerical requirement will be exceeded.

- I can see no good reason that RIPE should receive special treatment in
terms of any address assignment requirements and lots of reasons that they
shouldn't.  If there is a requirement for RIPE to receive a /48 pi block
for meetings, then that option should be considered for all end-users in
the RIPE service region.

Nick