[address-policy-wg] 2008-02 Moved to Review Phase (Assigning IPv6 PA to Every LIR)

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
> The impact analysis for the proposal described in 2008-02 has been
> published and the proposal is moved to the Review Phase.
>
> If this proposal reaches consensus, RIPE NCC will conduct a one-time
> operation to allocate an IPv6 block to every LIR that does not have
> any existing IPv6 allocation.
>
> You can find the full proposal at:
>
>    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2008-02.html

It is not obvious how this would modify the existing IPv6 policy.  As 
an example, I'm concerned whether these assignees would be bound by 
section 5.1.1b) of policy, specifically "advertise the allocation that 
they will receive as a single prefix if the prefix is to be used on 
the Internet".

Apart from that procedural issue, while this could be argued to be a 
good move from simplification point of view (less paperwork, maybe 
RIPE NCC could lay off 5 hostmasters as a result :-), I don't think 
the current allocation criteria for /32 are prohibitive for ISPs. 
I'd like to hear feedback on experiences to the countrary.

As a result, it's not obvious which problem this is trying to solve 
except granting /32's to enterprises.  So I'm opposed to this policy 
proposal.

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