[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] New IPv6 Address Block Allocated to RIPE NCC

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:33:41AM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:18:01PM +0200, leo vegoda wrote:
> > > > The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2001:4000::/23
> > > > from the IANA in June 2004.
> > > Unbelievable.  Morons.
> > Why?
> 
> Because man-months of argueing that "/23 allocations are needlessly 
> fragmenting the RIR address blocks, please allocate a decent size
> (like a /8)" are just plainly ignored by the ICANN folks.

I'll try to scan through archives when I get a chance, but I've been on this 
list for some time and have not seen much activity...

Personally I don't see anything wrong with IANA reserving /8 for RIPE and 
specifying so on its page, but I really don't see why it should immedialy 
allocate that much space, as /8 would be what RIPE needs if half of its 
current membership requested ipv6 and somehow i dont think this is what 
is happening, you dont even have 10% of your membership doing it yet...

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net