Re: [ipv6-wg] The Pope gets IPv6 PA space (not PI :)

[Ben Buxton <b.buxton@localhost]

> Mostly irrelevant ("mostly" because if the Holy See is going to provide 
> IPv6 connectivity interconnecting their missions to those states, an ISP 
> delegation might make sense).
> The question is how many _interior networks_, not people or states, is 
> the Internet Service Provider operated by the Holy See going to 
> interconnect?
I would have thought that an independent state should have the right to 
receive at least one PI prefix allocation.
The thought of one's country being entirely dependent on receiving its 
entire space from a (most likely) commercial organisation in another 
country is not very appealing.
Imagine if your country could only get its connectivity from another 
country, and "diplomatic issues" with that country caused your 
connection to become unreliable.
Whether or not the Vatican can fulfil these requirements, I'd say that 
every state should have a right to at least one independently routable 
prefix (both v4 and v6)
BB

> Rgds,
> -drc
> (who has has seen the justification "there are more than 1 billion 
> people" once too often)