[ipv6-wg] Publication of default assignment sizes for end-user network ?

>> Now this does not forbid you to register individual
>> assignments into the public database, but doing so poses
>> various problems. Not only the sheer number of assignments
>> can be a problem, but also keeping that registration
>> up-to-date will have serious impact on your day to day
>> operations and especially with residential users there might
>> be privacy issues as well.
>
> If we would have a distributed database protocol to extend the
> RIPE database into the LIRs, then this would not be an issue.
> I'm thinking of something like DNS.
>
> For instance, if I need to look up data on three
> /48s in fdb8:e914::/32 I would first send a lookup request to
> RIPE. The RIPE db would tell me that all data for
> fdb8:e914::/32 is in a server at fdb8:e914::dbdb. I would
> cache that information, and send my first lookup request to
> the distributed server. After getting my reply, I would prepare
> to send the second request for fdb8:e914:c20f::/48, notice that
> the /32 is already in my cache, and use the cached server
> instead.
>
> This is roughly the way DNS lookups work with the result that
> the detailed data does not have to be kept in one central
> location. I would like to see the RIPE db move in the same
> direction.
>
> At the same time, I would like to see the spec opened up a bit
> so that the distributed server operators would be free to add
> additional attributes to existing objects, and additional objects
> so that there is the possibility of using the same distributed
> lookup mechanism for geographic or language identifications as
> well.

This may as well be another solution, but it still needs some way of  
signalling where the actual boundary between customers is as I see no  
way to delegate it down to the customer level unless there is some way  
to incoorperate it into the CPE.

And that's I think my main argument opposing to this path, it takes a  
lot of time to and develop that model ad get it implemented across all  
the LIR's. The big benefit of solving it at the RIR level is that it's  
only a handfull of systems  that need to be changed and the basic way  
to retrieve that information is already there in the form of the whois  
protocol.

I'm not syaing I don't like your solution, I'm just afraid that  
deployment will be just to late.

Grtx,

Marco