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

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:56:19AM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> 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...

The big advantage of using decent-size blocks is that the respective
RIRs can use more efficient distribution algorithms (binary-chop, for
example, see RIPE-261) inside their block.

Also there is no *reason* for this, except "job security by introducing
needless bureaucracy".  

Conservation is not an issue (there are 64 /8s inside FP 001 - giving
each RIR a /8 will leave 59 /8s, with a high chance that the RIRs will
not ever come back asking for more), and "we need to make sure that 
the RIRs know what they are doing" is also a non-issue, regarding the
given clue distribution at the ICANN / RIR level.

Nobody has ever given a good reason for this insistence on /23 allocations,
except that, years ago, the IESG had recommended this (for the initial
ICANN -> RIR allocations).

Gert Doering
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