how 200 /48's fails the job [Re: [address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:48:23 +0300 (EEST), Pekka Savola wrote:
>Why do you think you require a /32 to "promote IPv6".  Don't answer.. 
>it was a rhetoric question :)
No, it isn't rhetoric.

For our company we require a *unique* *globally* and under
our AS with definition of an AS ("own policy") routable
address space. I don't care about the exact size.

However I do care that it should be independent from other
ISP's and upstreams as the market laws make everything
else very bad.

We cannot afford giving up the competition between
suppliers for our upstream traffic and we cannot afford
giving up the investments in connection to internet
exchanges and to become dependent from the mercy
of a single supplier.

Thus I can clearly tell you that without independently
routable address space we will not introduce IPv6 within
our network. Period.

Which means no IPv6 reachability for serveral well
known services. And as no customer is asking for it
it won't come up.

>My own, small consulting company (with dozens of customers) can 
>certainly promote v6, but I have no delusions of grandeour that it 
>would be best from the global perspective to allow such or even larger 
>companies, whether calling themselves ISPs or not, to obtain a /32.
*Please* *do math*.

You probably do this when you provide consulting, too ?

A /32 is the 0.000 000 000 233 part of the IPv6 address space.

This is what *anyone* who asks and who don't asks
receives as a mininmum assignment today because this
is exactly the equivalent of *one IPv4 address* and is
*required* to provide a full service connection to the
internet.

And thus it should be affordable to give this size to a
company *providing ISP services to customers*.

>Is a bit of unselfishness too much to ask ?
No, and you got the answer.

Best Regards
Oliver



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