[address-policy-wg] IPv6 Stockpiling

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 12:03:15PM +0200, Marco Schmidt wrote:
> There might be other options that this working group can consider and 
> discuss.

I would be very interested to hear from a few LIRs that have more than
10 allocations what their reasoning is.


I know at least one enterprise that has 3 LIR accounts for different
parts of their business ("internal DC networks", "cloud stuff", "office
networks") which are sufficiently disjoint that they effectively are
3 different companies, owned by the same mothership - so I do understand
why some setups need/want "a handful" of allocations.

I can also understand a setup where a multinational ISP is organized in
a way so that every country network is served by a distinct LIR, so each 
can handle their local addressing needs as they find appropriate - and 
I'd also say that this is a good use of resources (and if the company 
decides that they want to merge all these LIRs into one umbrella account
later, you'd end up with 10+ /29s).   UUnet used to do that "back in the
IPv4 days", and ended up with a big stack of red voting cards at AGM :-)

So, these use cases I fully understand, and find them well within the
goals of the IPv6 policy

  - make sure people have addresses to number their networks
  - make sure the RIPE NCC knows where these addresses are (registry)


That said, I lack imagination why LIRs would need much higher numbers
of /29, so it would be good to hear about the underlying reasoning -
speculation won't adjust the policies in a positive way.


*That* said, I'm not alarmed either, yet.  102 /29s is, in total, a
/22 of IPv6 space.  If this happens a few times per RIR, it won't make
a noticeable dent in the available IPv6 space - which is, of course, the
other aspect we need to take into account "will $this make us run out of
address space in the next 50 years?".

As of now, I'm more worried about deaggregation and routing table slots
than I am about total address space burn rate.

Gert Doering
        -- just a long time IPv6 policy geek
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