[address-policy-wg] Discrepancy Between RIPE Policies on IPv4 and IPv6 Provider Independent (PI) Address Space

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:51, Marcus.Gerdon <Marcus.Gerdon at versatel.de> wrote:

> I don't agree on this when talking about connecting servers.

As I said, I reduced the example extremely for the sake of argument.
While there are many valid reasons why a single machine could have more
than one IP (virtualization, SSL, etc) with both IPv4 and IPv6, IPv6
certainly makes using up IPs easier as there are so many.

The be explicit:
A customer with a single server who is assigned a /32 with IPv4 would
and should still receive a full /64 with IPv6. Even when he really only
needs one address, now or ever.

This would not be allowed with PI space with the scheme you propose. I
am not sure if it _should_ be allowed with PI space in the first place,
but if it is, a full /64, not a /128, should be assigned.


Richard