[Apwg-ipv6-papi] who can make assignments?

[Elvis Velea]

Hi,

On 7/5/13 2:29 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 02:04:02PM +0200, Elvis Velea wrote:
>> how should we call the /48 block that the RIPE NCC will make directly to
>> the.. IXP, let's say?
>>
>> should it be an allocation or an assignment?
>
> Well... in the new regime, this would be a "small allocation", then...
>
> (and the IXP could assign a /64 from this to individual LAN segments)

ACK

>
>
> The naming scheme is actually one of the parts that I find most difficult,
> as there's really no other good names than 'allocation' and 'assignment' -
> otherwise I had proposed a completely new name to describe "block of
> addresses coming from RIPE"...
>

right

>
>> Right now the policy says that assignments can not be further
>> sub-assigned, do we want to keep this limitation in the new policy?
>
> Well, that is the problem that got this all started - "differently coloured
> block of addresses come with different do's and don't's" -> so, no, we don't
> want to impose restrictions on the *use* of addresses.
>

ok

> (We do want to impose restrictions on *transfers* of sub-blocks, because
> there's no good reason today that would outweigh enabling fragmentation of
> blocks)
>

ACK

> Gert Doering
>          -- NetMaster
>

cheers,
elvis