[address-policy-wg] IPv6 Policy Clarification - Initial allocation criteria "d)"
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Kurt Erik Lindqvist
kurtis at kurtis.pp.se
Wed Jun 16 01:40:45 CEST 2004
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Below is an excerpt from the IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment > Policy: > > 5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria "d)" > > "To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an > organisation must [...] have a plan for making at least 200 /48 > assignments to other organisations within two years." > > > 1. According to this criterion, LIRs who are operators planning to > only > make /64 assignments appear not to qualify. Was this the > community's > intention? I personally think this is silly. Then again I have a hard time understanding why you would not give out a /48 to each customer or "site". > 2. There are a number of interpretations of requirement "d)": > > > - NUMBER OF ASSIGNMENTS > > -- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least 200 separate /48 > assignments. Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 > assignments > and the size of each must be a /48. > > -- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least the equivalent > of > 200 /48 assignments. Possible scenario: LIR can assign one > /41 and seventy-two /48s. > > Which interpretation was intended regarding the number of > assignments? Why not just "200 assignments"? And oh, while we are at it, why 200 assignments? > - RECIPIENT OF ASSIGNMENTS > > -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to > 200 separate organisations (regardless of which > organisation). Possible scenario: LIR can make 1 assignment > to its own organisation and 199 assignments to 199 > "different" organisations. > > -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to > 200 separate organisations outside of its own > infrastructure. > Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 assignments to 200 > "different" organisations. Assignments to its own > organisation will not be counted. > > -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200 > separate networks (regardless of which organisation these > networks belong to). Possible scenario: LIR makes 200 > assignments to 200 networks. 100 can be for its own > infrastructure and 100 can be for another single > organisation. > > -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200 > separate networks outside of its own infrastructure. > Possible > scenario: LIR makes 200 assignments to 200 networks "outside > of its own infrastructure". > > Which interpretation was intended regarding the recipient of > assignments? Actually non from the RIPE community if I remember. But we discussed this before. IF we want to stay with the 200 limit, I would say 200 assignments. Period. - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQM+JAaarNKXTPFCVEQIVHQCfaApDWVknpVsKo/qUQB6DtDdJvu8AoLuQ ix5Dx9pTA5w2gU62swoVUiNN =PRPl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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