IPv6 policy and Supernational-LIRs

Hi,

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:03:37PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> The current IPv6 address allocation policy nevertheless appears to try
> to implement routing aggregation through the RIR IPv6 allocation policy,
> in that only the "big guys" can get an allocation from their RIR.  

Misunderstood.  The new policy means that every LIR (that is serious 
about connecting customers) can get IPv6 space.

Yes, (smallish) end customers can not.

> A side effect of this is that it will take away smaller ISPs ability to
> set their own routing policy, because they would need to go to their
> upstream(s) to get IPv6 addresses, and it seems likely that strict
> filtering of routing announcements on LIR allocation boundaries will be
> implemented.

Setting their own "regional" routing policy and doing peering should work
fine in such a framework.

The question to be asked is "is it so important to be visible world-wide
and to impact every single core BGP router world-wide" if the entity
in question can't be bothered to become an LIR and document the *plan* to
connect 200 customers?  Yes, becoming an LIR costs money, but announcing
space to the world does so as well - and there ain't no free lunch (and
should not be).

Gert Doering
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