[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Policy for allocation of IPv6 address space from IANA to RIRs

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:21:32PM +0200, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > If you want to go with /12s, hand out the /12 per RIR *now*.  Fully,
> > without any "reservation".  /8s would be better.
> 
> Repeat the mistakes done in IPv4, only this time by assigning everything to
> the RIRs instead of directly to the user? Good plan. Has nobody learned from
> the mistaked made in the past?

We *have* learned.  Fragmentation is a bad thing.

> We can not say if there will be another assigment policy then IANA->RIR->LIR
> in maybe 20 or 30 years (thats the time IPv6 has a realistic chance to gain
> real speed).
> 
> Then the RIRs sit on their /8s wihtout really needing it just like the
> organizations that got direct assignments today.

So what?  If every RIR is wasting a /8, then we have lost 5/64 out of FP001.

Even if we completely mess up FP001, we have 6 more prefixes to get it
right, based on "20 or 30 years experience".  But we need to *get going*
to *gain* that experience, instead of standing still, waiting for 
enlightenment to happen.

These "we must do it right or not do it at all" worries have slowed down
IPv6 deployment tremendously in the last years, and have resulted in
this wonderful /23 ICANN->RIR allocation policy.

Gert Doering
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