[address-policy-wg] 2011-04 New Policy Proposal (Extension of the Minimum Size for IPv6 Initial Allocation)

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:41:40AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Roger Jørgensen wrote:
> 
> > Isn't that almost the same that was said when we went from /35 to /32, 
> > and now again when we go to /29? Nothing wrong in that, the world keep 
> > growing so it's just fair the address-space grow with it.
> 
> Haven't we already reserved the encompassing /29 per initial /32 the past 
> few years? 

Yes.

> Does this proposal suggest that a /26 should be reserved for an 
> initial allocation of /29?

It doesn't say so (otherwise it would have been written down :) ), but
since the NCC has moved from "allocate linearily, always leaving 3 bits
in reserve" to "binary chop", no reservations are needed anymore
(or, phrased differently, "reservations automatically use all the 
space still available").

If you look at the stats files, this is nicely visible in recent 
allocations:

ripencc|FI|ipv6|2a03:9b80::|32|20111011|allocated
ripencc|PT|ipv6|2a03:9c80::|32|20111011|allocated
ripencc|SE|ipv6|2a03:9a80::|32|20111011|allocated
ripencc|GB|ipv6|2a03:9e80::|32|20111012|allocated
ripencc|RS|ipv6|2a03:9d80::|32|20111012|allocated
ripencc|DE|ipv6|2a03:a080::|32|20111013|allocated
ripencc|FI|ipv6|2a03:9f80::|32|20111013|allocated
ripencc|IT|ipv6|2a03:a280::|32|20111014|allocated
ripencc|IT|ipv6|2a03:a380::|32|20111014|allocated
ripencc|RU|ipv6|2a03:a180::|32|20111014|allocated

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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