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

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:25:21PM +0100, Vincent Gillet wrote:
> I am ok this the size /whatever.
> 
> My concern is the difference about
> /18 allocation from IANA
> versus
> /19 allocation to LIR
> 
> thus a 50% immediate usage.

As I've mentioned before (maybe overly cryptic) this is an area of 
ongoing concern - and the goal is to distribute address space from
ICANN to the RIRs in "reasonable" chunks, for example a /12 or /8.

There are some proposals out in all the regions, the majority of the
constituency in all regions seems to be in favour of it (with small 
regional changes that are not incompatible to other regions), and 
we're waiting to see it implemented.

The fact that the current allocation strategy is less-than-perfect
(to be polite, for once) is mostly ICANNs fault, for clinging to a
now-deprecated RFC and being very passive about abouting the processes.

Bluntly: there are some people that cannot count, and assume that "IPv6 
will run out tomorrow" if reasonable sizes are distributed.  The 
arguments are always very similar ("classful addressing has failed in 
the past!" "people also said that 640 kbytes are enough!" and other 
"I don't want to think about large numbers but I oppose this!"-
Arguments).

Much more details about this can be found in the archives of the 
IPv6 WG and the address-policy WG (on http://www.ripe.net/)

Gert Doering
        -- Address Policy WG Co-Chair
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