[address-policy-wg] RE: [ipv6-wg] additional IPv6 allocation (ripe-512 issues)

On 7/19/11 7:55 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Jasper Jans wrote:
>> The RIPE currently reserves a /29 for every initial /32.
>
> Is this really true?

Well, from my source of information - yes (for legacy allocations).

> When the RIRs and IANA were discussing the /12
> allocations, the RIRs claimed one of the reasons they needed /12s was
> because they would all be using the "bisection method" of allocation
> to remove the need for reservation. It would be sad to hear RIPE
> still hadn't followed through.

Again, from my source, since some months or maybe a year, RIPE-NCC 
allocates IPv6 on "bit-boundry" (or bisection) method, so reservation is 
not needed anymore. But legacy allocations made us think of /29 :)

/jan