[lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:58:25PM +0100, Sebastian Willing wrote:
> Gert Doering wrote:
> [...]
> > The other point is that one of the main arguments in that RFC is "if a
> > customer changes ISPs, they will always get the same size prefix (a /48)",
> > which is just not working if customers can very liberally get more than
> > a /48 to account for "another-level-down end sites".  So we're back to
> > the address space haggling days, just argueing about the number of /48s
> > instead the number of single IPs.
> [...]
> 
> A /48 isn't the same as an v4-IP. 

I'm aware of that.

> Using a /48, one has 65536 different /64-IPs
> which is really enough for most applications. Less people will request more
> than one /48 this way and it is and should be the job of the LIR to filter
> these who want as many IPs as possible just for fun.

The design of the policy is "give everybody a /48 without asking" so that
there is no *need* for discussion, weeding out "unwarranted applications"
and "if you don't give it to me, I go to $otherisp who will!".

This contradicts the so-far result of the ongoing discussion, which is
"if someone has some sort of semi-independent networks connected, they
can get a /48 on their own, so the upstream has to get more space"...

Gert Doering
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