[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] New Document available: RIPE-343

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:35:52PM +0000, David Corking wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > > New RIPE Document Announcement
> > > Ref:            ripe-343  
> > > Title:          IPv6 Address Space Management  
> > > Author:         Paul Wilson, Raymond Plzak, Axel Pawlik 
> > > Date:           22 February 2005
> 
> > as this document is far from new, and did not fly well the last
> > time it tried to take off,
> 
> At first reaction, this seems like an improvement over the idea of
> IANA hoarding the enormous space while an RIR has to achieve 80% use
> of its allocation.  (Improvement in that it favours the primary goal
> of promoting aggregation - while not, in a way that is obvious to me,
> harming the other goals of the allocation policy.)
> 
> A couple of questions :
> 
> 1) Which parts of the community rejected the doc in its previous
>    incarnation and why?

It was mostly disliked because of the use of a global common address
pool, which means that you give up any chance to be able to filter/aggregate
on region boundaries ("why do I need to know any details about ASes 
located outside my region?") - whether or not someone is doing this today
doesn't matter, but it was felt that it shouldn't be made impossible 
right from the start.

The consensus was to that we want ICANN to hand over reasonable chunks of
address space (/12, /8, ...) to the individual RIRs, but that we don't 
want a "common pool".  There is a new proposal out there since last 
summer, which tries to get consensus in all regions about the specifics,
and then change the policy.

The whole discussion can be found in the mailing list archives of the
address policy mailing list, on www.ripe.net.


> 2) Why is IANA not a co-author - only the RIRs?

ICANN/IANA has been very passive and very resistive regarding any attempts
to make the IANA->RIR allocations more reasonable.  For many years now.

Gert Doering
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