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

The issue isn't about allocating a bigger netblock to the RIRs or not, the 
issue are more how big it should be.

Anything bigger than /8 is shooting ourself in the foot and limiting our 
options when we in 10-20years figure out a much better way to use the 
address space. Even /12 is overkill but it will last for a while and we 
don't get more fragmentation of the IPv6 space than we have today 
with those ridiculous /23 allocation.

Allocate maximum one /8 for each RIR and give them a /12 _now_, not in 1 
years time! Just stop those /23 allocation...



I'm still quite Junior and young compared to most of you, and I have no 
interest in getting into trouble with IPv6 in some years (20+) similar to 
what there are today with IPv4 due to we thought we could waste _too_ 
much of the address space:) 
...Not to mention the trouble we for sure will have with regards to how to 
solve one of the unsolved "problems", multihoming....




just my 2 Euro cents:)

(that we in 20+ years will face a situation where IPv6 most likely aren't 
usable, that's a total different story)



On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:04:21AM +0100, Jon Lawrence wrote:
> > Yes, doubling does seem unwise.
> > It would make sense (to me anyway) that once xx% of a /12 is allocated then 
> > another /12 is issued to the RIR.
> 
> Indeed. I see no point in unconditional doubling. I'm pretty confident
> that /12 blocks are large enough to serve a RIR long enough so that
> ordering a new /12 is not hampering anything.
> 
> My suggestion would be to set aside a /8 per RIR (perhaps also a DNS
> reverse delegation for that) and allocate /12s to the RIRs upon their
> request. A RIR qualifies for a new /12 block as soon as nn% usage of
> the current /12 block is reached. nn might be 50% or more. As Randy
> suggests, the percentage should be low enough so that the RIRs can
> get new space without delaying allocation to LIRs (as it happens
> nowadays).
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 
> 

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