[address-policy-wg] 2006-01 New Draft Document Published (Provider Independent (PI) IPv6 Assignments for End User Organisations)

On 10 Feb 2009, at 09:20, Eliot Lear wrote:

> Isn't space allocated to an LIR PA by definition?

Hi,

No; today they might have PA and PI.  An organisation may need to run  
two discrete networks, for some load balancing, resilience, and  
continuity applications.  They may have PA for their usual services,  
and for making assignments to end users, and PI for their own  
infrastructure or services which must be announced independently.

Examples might be organisations who make assignments to end users, and  
run anycast dns services.

I think it's a mistake to say that an organisation can not have v6 PI,  
simply because they are an LIR.  Their relationship with RIPE does not  
alter the technical correctness (or otherwise) of their request for  
address resources.



Kind regards,
Andy Davidson
LONAP Ltd     and NetSumo Ltd
www.lonap.net     www.netsumo.com