Re: IPv6 addressing delegation, Bob Hinden hinden@localhost

[Bob Fink <]

At 03:43 PM 1/19/99 +0000, Rute Sofia wrote:
>At the 31th RIPE Meeting was said that by January 1999 RIPE would start 
>delegating IPv6 addresses:
>
>
>"January 1999: start allocating IPv6 addresses 
>(depends on IANA to be ready to allocate to the regional 
>registries and on the registries to get their databases and 
>procedures compliant)".
>
>FCCN is a pTLA at the 6bone and, as a service provider is interested in 
>having real IPv6 addressing space as soon as possible.
>
>We would like to know, if possible, what is the sate of IPv6 address 
>allocation, and what is the procedure one has to follow in order to 
>obtain IPv6 addresses.

Currently, and for the last two months, the three registries (ARIN, APNIC,
RIPE-NCC) have said they would start assigning TLA/Sub-TLAs in 1Q99, which
I'm interpreting to mean by end March 99.

As for how to submit, given your IPv6 experience as a pTLA on the 6bone, if
you are ready to provide production IPv6 services as a provider (i.e., not
as an end-site) you can submit a request to your regisry (presumably
RIPE-NCC) in the same form the others of us have for the initial requests
(ESnet, Canarie, UUNET-UK, vBNS and WIDE).

Just look at the TLA/Sub-TLA Rules draft
<http://www.6bone.net/tla-assign-05.txt> section 5 to see what we (the
IETF) suggested to the registries for rules of assignment.

As I have helped review each of the other requests to date, I would be
happy to help you as well.

However, if you aren't quite ready to provide production IPv6 service yet,
and/or you don't mind waiting until April, I would suggest waiting. You
might consider contacting RIPE-NCC and ask them to tell you the status in
setting up processes for requesting TLA/Sub-TLAs and their current timeline.


Regards,

Bob