[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] New IPv6 Address Block Allocated to RIPE NCC

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:56:19AM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> 

> 
> Personally I don't see anything wrong with IANA reserving /8 for RIPE and 
> specifying so on its page, but I really don't see why it should immedialy 
> allocate that much space, as /8 would be what RIPE needs if half of its 
> current membership requested ipv6 and somehow i dont think this is what 
> is happening, you dont even have 10% of your membership doing it yet...
> 

I wouldn't see anything wrong with it either except IANA is allocating
sequential /23s, not reserving larger blocks for each RIR.
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-tla-assignments)

Now, consider one of the reasons IPv6 hasn't take off yet is there's a bunch
of problems created by the geographical aggregation goals.


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