<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Dec 2021, at 10:29, Jeroen Massar via ipv6-wg <<a href="mailto:ipv6-wg@ripe.net" class="">ipv6-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Any LIR could simply take a /32 out of their prefix and delegate it for "disconnected use"... seeing that there are bunches of LIRs doing that kind of 'business' already, .... solved problem all of it, not?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This sentence triggered me, knowing that back in the days we had looked at it. So a colleague was kind enough to cobble together some fresh scripts and put the two data sets next to each other…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At the moment we count 24043 IPv6 allocations and assignments, comparing those to the routing information collected by RIS:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">8773 are seen as exact match in RIS<br class="">2648 have at least one "more specific" route in RIS<br class="">12622 are not seen at all</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now of course no doubt RIS has a few blindspots, so there is a level of inaccuracy here, also because this is based on a single snapshot taken somewhere yesterday afternoon, which means we may have come across an outage somewhere.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, ballpark 50% of the IPv6 space could be categorised as "disconnected". As we probably all very well know, deployment takes time so probably soe of these are "in the pipeline" and hopefully will be seen and "connected" very soon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yet, in my personal view the number is still somewhat high. There might be a few who purposely choose not to announce (all of) their IPv6 address space. But I suspect that is not the 12k+ we observe right now. Maybe not to far off to conclude that the address allocations outpace deployments or turning that on its side: "getting address space is not the cause of the delayed deployment".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just leave it here as a datapoint, but if anybody has any bright ideas to get more space visible because of deployment, no doubt many are interested.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MarcoH</div><div class="">PS: thanks Rene!</div></body></html>