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

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:33:46PM +0100, Cameron Gray wrote:
> First a little background, recently in the London Webhosting world, a 
> big drive has occured to become multi-homed and isolated from any one 
> providers screwups, downtime, incompetence, etc.  The problem with this 
> is that very few of them have any of the necessary skills to liase with 
> the NCC to do requests or even understand why its necessary [tangent: 
> the number of times I see "because ARIN gave us a /24 per box" as a 
> justification from the same group is silly].  I firmly believe in 
> leaving the important things to those who know what they are doing, 
> present company (I hope ;)).
> 
> The small providers can have either IPv6 PI (currently disallowed and 
> frowned upon) or become a LIR and wreak havoc on the hostmasters.

This is something that I really don't understand.  The hostmasters are
here to help educate LIRs that don't know what they are doing - and it
will be for the better of everyone.

If they are so clueless, then they shouldn't be allowed to do BGP, and
possible "wreak havoc" on everybody else's routing tables.

> I'm against dishing out /32s to Joe Blogs because I believe the subnet 
> recommendation/guidelines as published are a good balance.  In theory a 
> /48 for any customer site should be several orders of magnitude to many 
> for most customers in two years.
> 
> But the ongoing problem is that of what should be allowed into the 
> public v6 Internet.

Indeed.  The idea behind the proposed change is (sort of) "those who can be 
bothered to understand the system and become a LIR are allowed".

What you are asking for ("those people are clueless but so important that
they need to be visible in everyones routing table") is a different
proposal.

Gert Doering
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