IP addresses for the RIPE NCC

Hi,

to wrap up the discussion.

We should get addresses from upstream provider(s).

Next question: how many?

I guess the RIPE NCC offices are "a site" and thus the need is for a 
/48 which we subnet internally. Probably another one for the RIPE 
Meeting, which is another site (a mobile one), with its own subnets. 
So far so good.

Doubts come when I think about the tunnels we want to provide to our 
staff, as we do with IPv4. If I read the policy and the IETF 
statements, each of these sites, which normally have a Linux box 
acting as end point and subnets internally (even if each subnet 
usually has no more than one other box), would need a /48, as that is 
the minimum for a site. Or should we assign, say /56's?
We estimate about 50 of these cases in a reasonable period of time.

What makes a site? The length of the cable? The technology used to 
get the packets inside those cables? The desire to subnet? Something 
else? I have never been able to get a definition that suits more than 
a small portion of the people I talk to.

I am very interested in your opinion both because we would like to 
roll out IPv6 services in the near future and to see what is the 
community's interpretation of the policy as a benchmark for our 
hostmasters.

So consider yourselves the hostmasters for our request as I would 
like to avoid our own departments calling a judgement on our own 
address resources.

Jooa