[address-policy-wg] Is the time for conservation over?

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:54:45PM +0000, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
> In addition, I don't see any good reason to wait until LIRs come and ask
> for IPv6 space. It's not scarce and the vast majority of IPv4 LIRs will
> be deploying IPv6 sometime. So why don't we just give every single
> one of them an IPv6 /32 today. Instead of creating barriers to the 
> adoption

I have proposed that myself in the past.  People don't like it.

In retrospect, it's not such a good idea anyway.  I strongly hope that
a few of the big DSL ISPs will start deploying IPv6 "soon", and they
might need much more space than a /32, eventually even more than a /29.

So the scheme "give everyone a /32, and reserve a /29" isn't going to
work for all of the networks, and I hope it's going to be changed
"soon" anyway (allocation of much bigger blocks ICANN -> RIRs, and
then use something similar to the "binary chop" proposed in RIPE-261
for the distribution RIR->LIRs [or maybe do by-country]).

Because of this, I'd rather not take this approach.

(Of course it's highly important that *if* a LIR comes asking, the
/32 will be granted quickly and without annoying buerocracy :) - and
if a LIR has a good deployment plan for something bigger than a /32,
it will also work out without major pains.  I've seen a /31 allocated,
so it *can* be done!)

Gert Doering
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