[address-policy-wg] IPv6 assignment for the RIPE meeting network

On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:53 AM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:55:07PM +0100, OndEej SurC= wrote:
>> 2008/12/4  <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com>:
>>> what makes a RIPE meeting any different than say, a GEANT meeting,
>>> a IEEE or IETF conference, or any other technical conference of  
>>> short duration
>>> (say 2 weeks long)?
>>
>> RIPE region?  RIRs can get microallocation in ARIN and APNIC region
>> (maybe LATNIC and AfriNIC).
>
> 	
> 	sure... any of these types of conferences -IN THE RIPE REGION- are  
> going
> 	to need address space.  they can all go get their own and pummel  
> the routing
> 	system w/ adds/deletes as the come/go...

You're aware, of course, that this would be so far down in the noise  
in the routing flux that only the terminally pedantic would notice,  
right?

> 	or...  one prefix could be carved out and handed to whomever needs it
> 	this week/month.

Long ago, APNIC dedicated a block of /16s to show networks.  Don't  
know if that's still the use of that block.  One interesting side  
note: it turned out that connectivity contracts for shows had  
significantly longer duration than the shows themselves.  On several  
occasions the ISP for the old show refused to stop announcing the  
prefix APNIC allocated for the show because they had a contract that  
required them to announce the address space.  The fact that the prefix  
was no longer registered to the show operator in the APNIC was  
irrelevant.  Much entertainment ensued.

But that was long ago.  I'm sure things are much better now.

Regards,
-drc