[address-policy-wg] 2011-04 Last Call for Comments (Extension of the Minimum Size for IPv6 Initial Allocation)

Hi,

I cannot let this particular claim unanswered:


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 05:19:12PM +0200, Turchanyi Geza wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Richard Hartmann <
> richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 14:02, Turchanyi Geza <turchanyi.geza at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > It is bad to make looser the address allocation rules at the RIR level.
> > > Address allocation rules MUST be the same for every regional Internet
> > > registry.
> >
> > No one is stopping the other RIRs from following suit; if anything
> > this will most likely speed up adaption. I agree that a similar policy
> > across all RIRs is desirable, though.
> 
> There is a common rule, the HD ratio. It is in an RFC.


Indeed, currently all regions have the HD ratio rule, and they even have
the same number for it.  But if you look at how that came to be, it's more
due to the historic evolution of the IPv6 alloction policies in the first
place than to any governing standard that says "it must be so".

To the contrary, every region is free to make their own IPv6 policy that
suits their membership.  ARIN has had differences ("distinct networks"
policy) for the longest time, as had RIPE ("PI multihoming requirements",
not everybody else had that), and so on.


So please stop that sub-thread now.  The claim that address allocation
rules must be the same in all RIRs is false, and everybody who can 
google for the current IPv6 policies in the regions can convince 
themselves of that.  Thus it's not a relevant argument here and now,
and only wasting bandwidth.

(Feel free to bring up a global policy proposal to make the IPv6 policies
identical across all regions, but that would have to be a *new* proposal,
and have to be discussed in a new context)

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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