[address-policy-wg] IPv6 Policy Clarification - Initial allocation criteria "d)"

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> Below is an excerpt from the IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment
> Policy:
>
>     5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria "d)"
>
>     "To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an
>     organisation must [...] have a plan for making at least 200 /48
>     assignments to other organisations within two years."
>
>
>  1. According to this criterion, LIRs who are operators planning to 
> only
>     make /64 assignments appear not to qualify. Was this the 
> community's
>     intention?

I personally think this is silly. Then again I have a hard time 
understanding why you would not give out a /48 to each customer or 
"site".

>  2. There are a number of interpretations of requirement "d)":
>
>
>     - NUMBER OF ASSIGNMENTS
>
>         -- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least 200 separate /48
>            assignments. Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 
> assignments
>            and the size of each must be a /48.
>
>         -- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least the equivalent 
> of
>            200 /48 assignments. Possible scenario: LIR can assign one
>            /41 and seventy-two /48s.
>
>     Which interpretation was intended regarding the number of
>     assignments?

Why not just "200 assignments"? And oh, while we are at it, why 200 
assignments?

>     - RECIPIENT OF ASSIGNMENTS
>
>         -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to
>            200 separate organisations (regardless of which
>            organisation). Possible scenario: LIR can make 1 assignment
>            to its own organisation and 199 assignments to 199
>            "different" organisations.
>
>         -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to
>            200 separate organisations outside of its own 
> infrastructure.
>            Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 assignments to 200
>            "different" organisations. Assignments to its own
>            organisation will not be counted.
>
>         -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200
>            separate networks (regardless of which organisation these
>            networks belong to). Possible scenario: LIR makes 200
>            assignments to 200 networks. 100 can be for its own
>            infrastructure and 100 can be for another single
>            organisation.
>
>         -- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200
>            separate networks outside of its own infrastructure. 
> Possible
>            scenario: LIR makes 200 assignments to 200 networks "outside
>            of its own infrastructure".
>
>     Which interpretation was intended regarding the recipient of
>     assignments?

Actually non from the RIPE community if I remember. But we discussed 
this before. IF we want to stay with the 200 limit, I would say 200 
assignments. Period.

- - kurtis -



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