proposal for RIPE's IPv6-address space structure
JOIN Project Team join at uni-muenster.de
Fri Nov 22 14:16:39 CET 1996
Hi Pedro, > >>>>> "JOIN" == JOIN Project Team <join at uni-muenster.de> writes: > > > JOIN> PRID (Provider Region ID) 7 bit corresponds to 128 > JOIN> IDs. These are mainly reserved for the countries of the > JOIN> 'natural', ie. European, RIPE-Region (A5). Non-European > JOIN> domains supported by RIPE get their own prefix (FP+RegID) in > JOIN> order to support a dedicated authority for these regions in > JOIN> the future. > > JOIN> We should mention that we have discussed the possibility to > JOIN> subdivide the RIPE address space in such a way that the > JOIN> length of the Country-ID depends on the size (population) of > JOIN> that country. In such a scheme big countries could get a 5 > JOIN> or 6 bit long Country-ID (instead of 7 bit), resulting in a > JOIN> larger address space for those countries. > > Could you clarify a bit the Region ID field ... > i.e. is there supposed to be a region id per country ? Yes, so it is. But with less than 60 countries within the European RIPE region many PRIDs will remain which may be used for pan-european organizations and other things. > what about pan-european organizations (E-bone, EUnet, Dante and so on) ? > Do they get the region of the country where their head-quarters is or > a special "all-europe region" ? See above. > Do you intend to have address assignment made "provider based" or > "geographically based" ? We intend to have address assignment "provider based". > i.e. where would EUnet PT get his prefix, for instance ? from the > "europe-wide" or "Holland" region or from "portuguese" region ? This depends on whether EUnet PT regards itself as part of a pan-european EUnet provider or as independent Portuguese service provider. > > Note that this is not criticism to the idea... i just think these points > could/should be addresses more clearly in the document. I hope, our points got clear. > > regards, > Pedro. > > Regards, Guido
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