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

At 10:30 02/03/2005, Jon Lawrence wrote:
>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.


It's also a dopey piece of administrative b/s which has no value. Much better that the policy be designed to cover cases like this and encourage people to be honest. That way the database models reality a bit better. 

-- Tim