[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Policy for allocation of IPv6 address space from IANA to RIRs

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:38:03PM +0200, leo vegoda wrote:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/ipv6.html

Very reasonable draft.

 - starting with a /12 is "big enough" for the near future (there are
   a couple of /20 allocation requests in the pipeline, but a /12 can
   fulfill 128 of them before reaching 50%)

 - adding individual bits, growing into the /6, ensures that the stuff
   stays aggregateable-by-region

 - *if* it should become obvious that a couple of special-case-blocks
   are required in the future (like 6to4's 2002::/16), this can be
   taken out of 2000::/6 or 3800::/5.

 - *if* a new RIR pops up in the not-so-far future, it might become
   necessary to split up the /6s into /7s or /8s, but this will not
   do any harm (after all: this is only *reserved*, and filled from 
   the bottom - so until the first RIR fills up a /7, the second half
   of all /6s will still be completely untouched).

Personally, I would tend to start with /8s (instead of /12s), but I know 
that this is way too radical for the conservative minds out there.  Based
on that, a /12 is a reasonable compromise.

Gert Doering
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