Re: Interim Policy proposal for IPv6 Address Assignment Policy for Internet Exchange Points

[Jim Dixon <]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Peter Willis wrote:

> Colleagues,
> 
> Why don't we give every LIR an IPv6 TLA without any further qualification?
> There's only 2859 LIRs in RIPE! How many in the World? Somewhere between
> 8000 and 16000? I've seen figures suggesting there's only 15K ISPs in the 
> World. 16K routes is a lot less than 100K+.

Indeed.  In fact, if the policy was simply to give an IPv6 TLA to any 
LIR who asked for one, it's likely that perhaps 10% would apply.  So
a negligible 300 or so additional IPv6 routes and a negligible amount of 
paperwork -- in fact this could just be handled by a robot hanging 
off www.ripe.net.  The only work involved is writing the script.
 
> Of course we have to fix the multihoming problem to keep the number of routes 
> down. But even if we only give TLAs to the few global tier 1 transit providers 
> if we don't fix the multihoming problem we will end up with a huge number of 
> routes. So the problem is to fix multihoming with a technical solution and not 
> to manage the problem through regulation.

Precisely.
 
> Peter Willis.
> BTexact Technologies.

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