[address-policy-wg] Re: [GLOBAL-V6] Critical or not and at what size (Was: How to get a IPv6 /32 the cheap way: go to AFRINIC)

Hi Jeroen,

If you have an objection to the current policy,
please raise up the counter-proposal to amend
the current policy in your region or the other.
I am not agueing here if RIR is critical or not.
I am just pointing out what the current policy says.
I know what you like to say.

best regards,

Kosuke


Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Kosuke Ito wrote:
> 
>>Please read carefully about the section of Critical Infrastructure.
>>
>>AfriNIC is eligible to have a /32 by the policy.
> 
> 
> How exactly is a RIR more "Critical" to the Internet than Google,
> YouTube, MySpace or whatever site somebody uses daily?
> 
> I understand if one would state "A RIR is critical as it provides
> service X", but then the RIR itself is not the critical infra, it is
> that service. RIPE itself doesn't have a /32 nor a /48, they are using a
> /48 that they have from an ISP out of PA space. K.ROOT *does* fall under
> critical infra though, and that has, according to that policy a prefix.
> 
> If one states "but they have a DNS server", then how does that make my
> DNS server not critical? Especially a DNS server by for instance Akamai
> powering hunderds of well used domains?
> 
> [..APNIC policy..]
> 
>>The maximum assignment made under these terms is /32 per operator.
> 
> 
> And this is the important portion of that part: "The maximum".
> That doesn't mean that if you can't justify it that you per default
> should be getting a /32. The default should be a /48, and more if one
> can justify it.
> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
> 
> 
> 
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