[address-policy-wg] IPv6 policy of making 200 /48 assignments

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:24:31AM +0100, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
> In IPv6 the requirement for having plans to have 200 customers exists as 
> a global compromize to make the policy acceptable in alll regions - its 
> was a regiaonaly approved policy - but globaly coordinated.
> 
> Now we are facing a review of this policy - some changes has already 
> been made in some regions - and the question is
> 
> 1) Should we change this criteria - if so - what should the new criteria 
> be - if any at all ? (why should v4 and v6 policy differ)

>From the discussions in the APWG mailing list, I understand that most
participants seem to be in favour of abandoning the 200-customer rule.

"If you're a LIR, pay your fees, assign to 3rd parties" - that's considered
sufficient to receive an allocation.

We just never came around to formalize the policy change.  (Time to 
excercise the new policy process...)

> 2) What would the (global) consequences be of such a change ? (the 
> policy will not be globaly coordinated any more, what about routing 
> table implications ?)

The "global policy" is already out of sync, as LACNIC has already dropped
the 200-customer rule...  I haven't checked the current state at ARIN
and APNIC, though.

Gert Doering
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