[ipv6-wg] IPv6 questions regarding ripe and address ranges

>Yes, you are stuck in IPv4 ways. If you have an independent network
with a unique routing policy 
>and you allocate IPv6 addresses to the customers who connect to your
network, then you are clearly an ISP and should get a /32. 
>If you have some network infrastructure in another continent that does
not randomly route traffic across the ocean and back, 
>then it has a unique routing policy, etc. 

The main change from our ipv4 to a ipv6 network will seem more in the
range of: we currently use a private class a range with local internet
connectivity by nat, which in ipv6 we want to get rid of. That's why I'm
looking into multiple address blocks because of multihoming and local
POP.

>Why? A three /48 blocks take up just as much routing table space as
three /32 blocks. 
>More importantly, if you the ISP only have a /48 then you cannot assign
/48 blocks to customers which is bad, bad, bad.

Well we are not a ISP. But as long as I can request a good address range
per location by becoming a member I don't mind too much on the size of
the block because (in all fairness) i don't think we will ever need more
then a /48. But I'll leave those ipv4 ways behind me from now on and go
with the flow.

>The most important concept in IPv6 addressing that is different from
>IPv4 addressing, is that the IPv6 address space is very, .... very,
very, very, big.

Point taken :)

>The second most important concept is that the subnetting architecture
is designed to waste large amounts of address space. 
>This "wasted" address space buys certain advantages. First, it means
that most subnets can grow for a long time without running out of
addresses.

>Also, there is no global policy that requires a network operator to get
all of their global addresses from a single RIR, 
>and there is also no global policy that requires them to get their
addresses from each RIR in which they have network infrastructure. 
>Just do whatever works best for your network. That is what other
network operators have done in the past.

So to conclude:
Ripe membership will (basically) give me a /32 per location no matter
the number of users or location?

Thanks,

Ralph Peeters

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