[address-policy-wg] Is the time for conservation over?
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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Tue Nov 4 10:55:48 CET 2003
Hi, On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:54:45PM +0000, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote: > In addition, I don't see any good reason to wait until LIRs come and ask > for IPv6 space. It's not scarce and the vast majority of IPv4 LIRs will > be deploying IPv6 sometime. So why don't we just give every single > one of them an IPv6 /32 today. Instead of creating barriers to the > adoption I have proposed that myself in the past. People don't like it. In retrospect, it's not such a good idea anyway. I strongly hope that a few of the big DSL ISPs will start deploying IPv6 "soon", and they might need much more space than a /32, eventually even more than a /29. So the scheme "give everyone a /32, and reserve a /29" isn't going to work for all of the networks, and I hope it's going to be changed "soon" anyway (allocation of much bigger blocks ICANN -> RIRs, and then use something similar to the "binary chop" proposed in RIPE-261 for the distribution RIR->LIRs [or maybe do by-country]). Because of this, I'd rather not take this approach. (Of course it's highly important that *if* a LIR comes asking, the /32 will be granted quickly and without annoying buerocracy :) - and if a LIR has a good deployment plan for something bigger than a /32, it will also work out without major pains. I've seen a /31 allocated, so it *can* be done!) Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 57386 (57785) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster at Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299
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