a. Arguments supporting the proposal
The community has recognised the importance of IPv6 deployment.
During the RIPE 55 meeting in Amsterdam, the RIPE community
also agreed to issue a statement on IPv4 depletion and the deployment
of IPv6 (http://www.ripe.net/news/community-statement.html).
This proposal will result in all LIRs in the RIPE NCC service
region holding an allocation of IPv6 address space. This will
help to speed up the deployment process discussed at RIPE 55.
LIRs will be encouraged to begin deployment of their IPv6 allocation
as soon as possible.
This document is not intended to change the current Initial
Allocation criteria in the IPv6 policy. It is only a one-time
operation.
b. Arguments opposing the proposal
It might be argued that this activity will be a waste of
address space.
Additional Information:
Note: In order to provide additional information related
to the proposal, details of an impact analysis carried out
by the RIPE NCC are documented below. The projections presented
in this analysis are based on existing data and should be
viewed only as an indication of the possible impact that
the policy may have if the proposal is accepted and implemented.
A. Impact of Policy on Registry and Addressing
System
Address/Internet Number Resource Consumption:
There are about 4,715 RIPE NCC members that do not hold
an IPv6 allocation. Allocating a /32 to each of these members
would result in approximately a /20 of IPv6 address space
allocated to these 4,715 members in total.
Fragmentation/Aggregation:
One can expect to see 4,715 new more entries on the routing
system. However, all these entries would be on the minimum
allocation size, so significant fragmentation/aggregation
impact can be expected.
B. Impact of Policy on RIPE NCC Operations/Services
After analysing the data that is currently available, the
RIPE NCC does not anticipate any significant impact on RIPE
NCC operations/services if this proposal is implemented,
other than some minor billing impact.
Allocating a /32 to all members that do not have an IPv6 allocation
would increase the billing score of these members. Under the
current RIPE NCC Charging Scheme, this would benefit the existing
IPv6 allocation holders, whose score would decrease in comparison
to the current non-IPv6 allocation holders. In view of the
low number of existing IPv6 allocation holders, the billing
impact is expected to be minimal for the members that are affected
by this proposal.
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