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

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:16:25AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
| 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.
I agree. I have two questions though;

1. Are there no expectations on having more RIRs in the lifespan of the
   001 segment of IPv6 space ? ie, will we run out of reserved blocks ? I
   am very worried we may indeed run out.
2. What's the purpose of "various". Please give some detail about what
   can and can not fit into this /6.

I think that reserving /8s is better than /6s. The DNS issue is one
thing, the scalability question in (1) is another. A /8 should be enough
for a RIR in the midterm future, if a RIR explodes (IP space wise) they
can always be plugged into another /8 in the future. I think this will
be a more stable situation than scaling down from /6s to /7s (as Gert
suggested).

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