[address-policy-wg] 2010-06 New Policy Proposal (Registration Requirements for IPv6 End User Assignments): discussion in the IPv6-WG mailing list

I guess it really depends on what you'd want to consider as more important; ease of administration or aggregation. The policy makes the assumption of large amounts of end user assignments being made - if you want out both /48 and /56 from a single PoP and you're going to do both in any significant quantity, I'd personally choose to use separate blocks for the /56 and the /48 assignments to allow for easier recycling. Then those blocks can have their own separate entry in the database, each with a single assignment size. If you need to re-hash block sizes at a later point, you can always change to a larger number of smaller blocks in the database. Database entries are (relatively) cheap.

Best

Remco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:address-policy-wg-
> admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Nick Hilliard
> Sent: vrijdag 3 september 2010 17:35
> To: Sander Steffann
> Cc: address-policy-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] 2010-06 New Policy Proposal (Registration
> Requirements for IPv6 End User Assignments): discussion in the IPv6-WG
> mailing list
> 
> On 03/09/2010 16:30, Sander Steffann wrote:
> > Allowing multiple "assignment-size:" fields might solve that.
> 
> perhaps.  But the beauty of only allowing a single size is that the RIPE NCC can
> multiply the number of assignments by the value of the
> assignment-size: field to find out the H/D ratio.
> 
> I'm not trying to argue out both sides of my mouth here, btw. I'm just trying
> to understand what the intention of the proposal is, and whether the
> proposal needs to be clearer in this regard.
> 
> Nick



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