[address-policy-wg] stockpiling IPv6

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via address-policy-wg wrote:

> We must remind that the allocation/assignment of resources is based on 
> justified need. And yes, we have a lot of IPv6 space, but it is really 
> justified and the same organization, having different LIRs, can use it 
> as a trick for stockpiling if there is not such justified need?

My only concern here is routing table size over time, and it's not a very 
big concern of mine. One area that perhaps could be optimized is to have 
some kind of process where if someone is merging multiple LIRs and they're 
not yet using some of the /29, they might be given the option to hand back 
address space and receive a larger, contiguous address block if they so 
choose.

If we give 65k ASNs a /29 each, this is a /13 worth of addresses. This is 
not a concern, addresswise.

Routing table wise, if this can be cut in half or something, could be 
worth doing.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se