[lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself

| On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:04:42PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
| > Example: SixXS (www.sixxs.net) has the IPng tunnelbroker which delegates
| > /60's from 3ffe:8114:2000::/48. We used to register every /60 in the
| > 6bone database. 
| 
| <rant>
| Which brings up an interesting problem.  According to the official 
| guidelines, you're not supposed to assing anything that is not 
| an /64 or /48.
[snip]
| But the IETF in their infinite wisdom decided that this is not what 
| people will want, so you're supposed to give them a /48.  Which, for
| DSL and Tunnel usage, means "a sizeable chunk of the /32 that a LIR 
| holds".
| </rant>

<defence>
Luckily, these /60 policies outdated the IETF recommendations by a year or 
two.  And I'm not about to consider changing the pTLA tunnelbroker system 
at AS8954. The other (newer) deployments of the SixXS software do indeed
issue /48s for each homeuser, following RIPE NCC's prior notice that 'if
in doubt, allocate a /48' (AIAD oct'02).
</defence>

groet,
Pim

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