[lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gall [mailto:gall at switch.ch]
> Sent: 15 January 2003 09:15
> To: Gert Doering
> Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer; Jeroen Massar; 'Wilfried Woeber,
> UniVie/ACOnet'; lir-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself
> 
> 
> [Probably opening a can of worms here...]

Yuk, worms taste bad .... ;-)

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> I agree.  The numerics in section 4 of RFC3177 assume that the top 45
> bits in 2000::/3 can be utilized with an H ratio of 0.25 (giving on
> the order of 10^11 /48).  IMHO, the problem with the current
> allocation policy is that it is a lot more conservative than RFC3177
> suggests while still holding on to the /48-for-everybody rule.  The
> relatively small LIR allocations create a level of scarcity in the
> number of /48's, which is enough to make people believe that giving a
> student as much address space as her entire University is just crazy.
> However, the whole point of RFC3177 was that this should be completely
> irrelevant.

It *is* completely irrelevant.

Allocate /48s, exhaust existing RIR allocation, get more addresses from RIR.

I don't see the problem.

 -- Mat.