[address-policy-wg] IPv6 addresses to transit-providers

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:17, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
>
> Whait if I am (mainly) anIPv6 transit provider with 201 customers - all
> beeing LIR on their own:
> - I cannot get address space from my upstream because I have none or
> several depending on my size and definition of "up"
> - I cant make a plan to assigh 200 /48s since all my customers are LIRs
> on their own
> - I am hardly an end site ?
>
> how do I get adresses under the current policy ?
> If I cannot, how do we modify the policy to alow me to get adresses ?
>
> This is an excellent point to show were the addressing policies puts
> limitations on the structure of the ISP industry unless we are careful.
>
IMHO, this is what is wrong with the current policy. It says you should 'PLAN' 
to assign 200 /48s it doesnot say you 'WILL' assign.
In order to obey the letter of the policy you could say that you 'PLAN' to 
assign each of your customers a /48 - whether they use it is entirely upto 
them (as they've got their own allocation they would probably never use 
the /48 from you).
This would get you an allocation and be obeying the letter of the policy.
You're not strictly lying, but it is a completely pointless use of address 
space.

Jon