[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RE: [address-policy-wg] Re: IANA to RIR IPv6 Allocation

On 20-aug-04, at 19:57, Ray Plzak wrote:

> While your comments do not address the policy proposed on the ARIN list

Hm, I thought this was an IANA thing so it must be the same world wide?

> In regard to your comments
> I have an observation with regard to the amount of IPv4 address space 
> that
> has been allocated to the RIRs.  It is worth noting that the RIRs have 
> not
> been allocated "around 220" /8s.

Upon rereading it turns out the words didn't come out as I intended.

What I meant to say was that there are some 220 /8s in total that may 
serve as global IPv4 unicast address space, and in the past the RIRs 
would get one /8 at a time, or about 0.45% of the available address 
space at a time.

The proposed IPv6 policy wants to allocate /6s to the RIRs, which is 
12.5% of the currently available global IPv6 unicast space. Now if 
0.45% was workable for 10 years in IPv4, I don't see why 12.5% would be 
necessary in IPv6.

Obviously there is some hidden goal that will be met by this policy. I 
think that before this policy is adopted this goal should be made 
explicit and there should be consensus that this is indeed an important 
goal.