Re: IPv6 Network Plans (Forcasting)

[Turchanyi Geza <]

Dave and all,

Untill now I postponed my comments, waiting for the global mailing list.
However, as there is still no mailing list, I would like to make some
comments now.

The firs lesson what I learned from the IPv4 address allocation history,
that allocating addresses for ever has good consequences for early
adopters and bad consequences for the late adopters.

Early adopter should have some benefit, however, colonialisation of the
address space should be avoided.

The IPv6 address space is not as big as it seems to be, as the
limiting effects of the multihoming, renumbering and aggregation are not
clear yet.

Therefore I suggest to introduce sliding allocation time window (ATW). The
size
of the ATW can be fine tuned by future policies, however, this could never
reduce the already allocated address space allocation time, however,
might increase it.

For example, the ATW can be set initially for 10 year. Any ISP (LIR) will
receive its address block for 3ATW, and any customer of the LIR will
receive its address block for ATW.

When the ATW expire, It should be checked, that the old policy is still
valid. If yes, tha allocation can be extended for an other ATW period of
time. If not, the customer will receive a now address block according to
the new policy, and with the customer should renumber its network within
the new ATW period of time and give back the old address space.

When all customer of a LIR should have already migrated to the new address
block, then the LIR should give back its address block, and this can be
reused later on by others, according to the new policy.

In this long enough allocation policy we can
	run the network
	minimize burocracy
	save the future

Best,

	Geza