[lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:42:48PM -0000, matthew.ford at bt.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:25:12AM -0000, matthew.ford at bt.com wrote: 
> > Allocate /48s, exhaust existing RIR allocation, get more addresses from
> RIR. 
> > 
> > I don't see the problem. 
> 
> The current way that the RIRs and IANA allocates space *is* a problem, 
> because it leads to "multiple prefixes per LIR", which is bad bad bad bad.
> 
> => which is why ripe-261 is being developed.

I'm not fully sure whether I understand this.

If I read RIPE-261 correctly, it is only meant to solve the distribution
issue IANA -> RIR, which is currently done in chunks of a /23 at a time,
leading to fragmentation at the RIR level (and as such is a very good
approach).

If that interpretation is correct, it won't change the distribution 
issues concerning the RIR -> LIR hierarchy at all.   Of course RIPE could
apply a similar algorithm inside their IANA -> RIPE block, but that will
only work if the block is large enough, in which case the algorithm 
really isn't *that* necessary on the IANA -> RIR level in the first 
place.


If, on the other hand, this document is meant to affect the way address
space is distributed down to the LIRs, that is "one global pool is used
to satisfy all LIR requests all over the world, with no RIR blocks in
between", then this will be very bad for by-region aggregation.  People 
*do* want to be able to filter on other-region more-specifics, which is 
only possible if there *are* per-region blocks.

The wording is a bit unclear on which case is correct, but I'm afraid it
is meant to be "number 2".

Could you (or someone else) shed some light on that?


(Hmmm, reading the closing paragraph again, it seems to be a proposal
only, not something finally decided yet.  Is this on any of the WG's
agendas?)

Gert Doering
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