[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Allocation behaviour (organisations getting multiple /32's)]

Hi Jeroen,

It is great to know that you are paying attention to allocations that are being 
made in other region. I would like to clarify the reason why APNIC made muliple 
allocations to UUNET.

UUNET have multiple memberships with APNIC based on the networks in the region.
As each economy, membership, managing their own address space therefore they 
also requesting for IP address separately. For aggregation purpose APNIC 
normally make allocations from contiguous block, as you can see from these 
allocations. This is similar to making a large allocation to an organisation 
then they further splitting between network for each economy.

I hope the above explanation answered some of your queries if you need further 
information please feel free to contact us.

Regards

Son

APNIC
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Allocation behaviour (organisations getting 
> multiple /32's)
> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:52:33 +0200
> From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org>
> Organization: Unfix
> To: ipv6-wg at ripe.net
> 
> I just noticed that UUNET/MCI got an additional 3 /32's:
> 
> inet6num:     2001:4441::/32
> netname:      UUNET-AU-NETBLOCK-20050708
> descr:        UUNET Australia Limited
> descr:        UUNET Network
> country:      AU
> 
> inet6num:     2001:4440::/32
> netname:      UUNET-HK-NETBLOCK-20050708
> descr:        UUNET Worldcom Hong Kong Ltd
> descr:        UUNET Network
> country:      HK
> 
> inet6num:     2001:4442::/32
> netname:      UUNET-JP-NETBLOCK-20050708
> descr:        UUNET Japan, Ltd
> descr:        UUNET Network
> country:      JP
> 
> They where all assigned to 1 person, who apparently works for UUNET/MCI
> in the US, not even the APNIC region, not even a role.
> 
> Did somebody say goodbye to aggregation?
> 
> Btw UUNET also has:
> 2001:600::/32 (Europe)
> 
> Apparently nothing in the US, in total 4x /32. 4 slots gone away.
> Are all global companies going to request separate /32's ?
> 
> Greets,
> Jeroen
> 
> 
> 
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