[address-policy-wg] RE: [ipv6-wg] additional IPv6 allocation (ripe-512 issues)

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:55:20AM -1000, David Conrad wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Jasper Jans wrote:
> > The RIPE currently reserves a /29 for every initial /32.
> 
> Is this really true?  When the RIRs and IANA were discussing the /12 
> allocations, the RIRs claimed one of the reasons they needed /12s was 
> because they would all be using the "bisection method" of allocation to 
> remove the need for reservation. 

Well, how memories change.  I seem to remember that I lobbied for /12s
(or bigger) because allocations of one-/23-at-a-time were just a stupid 
and human life-time wasting way to handle things...  ("The IPv4 Way").

gert
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