[address-policy-wg] IPv6 allocations for 6RD

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:45:52AM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Ahem, future innovation with IPv6 (whatever that is, beyound disabling
> insecure protocol features) needs to take VSLM into account.  It's
> also likely that the requirement that all unicast addresses most be
> within at least a /64 will be eventually overturned because those bits
> could be used in a more useful fashion.

This is well out of scope for any address policy discussion going on today.

When and if the IETF decides that non-/64-subnets are a desirable feature,
it makes sense to discuss the consequences on address policy here - before 
that, it's a waste of bits.

Please let's be focussed on the question at hand - which side do we want
to err to?

  - be very conservative in giving out IPv6 address space, risking that
    IPv6 will just never take off - for fear of running out of space
    "if we happen to very radically move the boundary by 8 bits multiple
    times"

  - be very liberal in giving out IPv6 address space, risking that we run
    out of FP001 sooner than expected, and that we will have to do a more
    restrictive policy later on - but doing our best to actually get IPv6
    out and deployed

Whatever we decide, history will tell us that we have been wrong in
our predictions...

Given the original question: as far as I understood the question, the
RIPE NCC IPRAs consider the request to be inside the boundaries permitted
by policy, if a bit larger than "typical".  So we don't really need a 
formal policy change here, just guidance to the IPRAs "this is a good 
thing, give them the address space" or "this is not a good thing, refuse!".

Gert Doering
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