[address-policy-wg] IPv6 allocations for 6RD

-> this is a good thing, give them the address space <-

Managing various SP prefix is a burden for large operators or might
even be a show-stopper for 6RD rollout.

Cheers,
Florian


2009/11/30 Gert Doering <gert at space.net>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:45:52AM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Ahem, future innovation with IPv6 (whatever that is, beyound disabling
>> insecure protocol features) needs to take VSLM into account.  It's
>> also likely that the requirement that all unicast addresses most be
>> within at least a /64 will be eventually overturned because those bits
>> could be used in a more useful fashion.
>
> This is well out of scope for any address policy discussion going on today.
>
> When and if the IETF decides that non-/64-subnets are a desirable feature,
> it makes sense to discuss the consequences on address policy here - before
> that, it's a waste of bits.
>
> Please let's be focussed on the question at hand - which side do we want
> to err to?
>
>  - be very conservative in giving out IPv6 address space, risking that
>    IPv6 will just never take off - for fear of running out of space
>    "if we happen to very radically move the boundary by 8 bits multiple
>    times"
>
>  - be very liberal in giving out IPv6 address space, risking that we run
>    out of FP001 sooner than expected, and that we will have to do a more
>    restrictive policy later on - but doing our best to actually get IPv6
>    out and deployed
>
> Whatever we decide, history will tell us that we have been wrong in
> our predictions...
>
> Given the original question: as far as I understood the question, the
> RIPE NCC IPRAs consider the request to be inside the boundaries permitted
> by policy, if a bit larger than "typical".  So we don't really need a
> formal policy change here, just guidance to the IPRAs "this is a good
> thing, give them the address space" or "this is not a good thing, refuse!".
>
> Gert Doering
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