[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:40:36AM +0200, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> 
> Agree, let's go the 200 customers, but keep the /48. Otherwise in order to
> be coherent, lets change RFC3177 also (which I will not agree).
> 
> > De: Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org>
> > 
> > The 200 thing can go indeed. The /48, which is the minimum assignment
> > towards that endsite must stay. Otherwise there will be ISP's who are
> > going to give out /56's, /58's, /60's, /62's etc.
> > 
> > The reason for the _minimum_ of a /48 is that when you want to change
> > over to another ISP that you can get the equally sized /48.
> > Or do you want to get, say, 3 IPv6's IP's from your upstream ISP?
> > 
> > If you are so extremely big that you need multiple /48's (which contain
> > 65k /64's as you will know) you are also more than capable of getting
> > your own TLA under the new proposed #gamma policy, and most people will
> > most likely going to just that for a large amount of reasons, especially
> > because they simply want 'an entry in the routing table'...
> > 

I'm just not sure this is something we want to be setting in stone.
Granted once clause 'd' about 200 assignments is gone, the requirement
to assign /48s would no longer seem to be an obstacle for LIRs'
allocation request. However, logic still stands that even though one
size (/48) may be big enough to contain just about all end-site networks
it almost certainly doesn't fit them all.

I agree wholeheartedly that RFC3177 should stay. However, RFC3177
contains a recommendation as to how to assign your address space, and we
already draw attention to this in ripe-267 5.4.1. So it seems
unnecessary (and maybe a little contradictory) to restate its
recommendations as requirements; it strikes me that this should be a
choice for ISPs to make and for customers to act on rather than making
it a box to be ticked when making your allocation request.

Andy

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