[lir-wg] RE: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Discussion about RIPE-261

At 01:59 PM 25-05-03 -0700, Michel Py wrote:

Can you explain "%G Pop."?  How is it calculated? I assume it has to do 
with GDP but please explain the calculation as well as the source of the 
numbers (the exact UN stats page would help).

Needless to say, your numbers do not seem to take in any socio-economic 
factors.  Assigning a /12 to North America as well as to Northern Africa 
and India might make socialistic sense as well as being "politically 
correct", but from a reality standpoint, it just don't fly.

-Hank



>Below is an example interpolated from the work we have done on
>geographic assignments:
>http://arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us/ipv6mh/geov6.txt
>
>Quick notes:
>- We are presently talking about PA space; the document mentioned above
>refers to PI space. However the geographic cutoff collapsed to the
>country level would not change.
>
>- I chose to assign a /8 to the entire world, which can be discussed.
>This means that after we colonize 255 other planets we have a problem
>:-) can someone help me with that warp drive please?
>
>- What could also be discussed are the details of how this was
>generated, but I would like to get the _concept_ across then we can talk
>about the details.
>
>Zone              Population  %G Pop.  IANA
>----------------  ----------  -------  --------------
>China             1284971000   20.91%  2346:0000::/11
>Continental Asia   673454413   10.96%  2346:2000::/11
>India             1025096000   16.68%  2346:4000::/12
>Northern Africa    565854163    9.21%  2346:5000::/12
>Asian Islands      488468000    7.95%  2346:6000::/12
>Western Europe     423412058    6.89%  2346:7000::/12
>North America      318243350    5.18%  2346:8000::/12
>South America      350724557    5.71%  2346:9000::/13
>Eastern Europe     307858000    5.01%  2346:9800::/13
>Middle East        258577000    4.21%  2346:A000::/13
>Southern Africa    242566332    3.95%  2346:A800::/13
>Central America    175719760    2.86%  2346:B000::/14
>Oceania             30568053    0.50%  2346:B400::/16
>----------------  ----------  -------  --------------
>World             6145512686  100.00%  2346:0000::/8
>
>
>Example of one zone:
>
>Country              Population  %Z Pop.  %G Pop.  IANA
>-------------------  ----------  -------  -------  --------------
>United States         285926000   89.85%    4.65%  2346:8000::/13
>Canada                  1015000    9.75%    0.50%  2346:8800::/17
>Hawaii                  1224398    0.38%    0.02%  2346:8880::/21
>Bermuda                   60000    0.02%    0.00%  2346:8888::/24
>Greenland                 12483    0.00%    0.00%  2346:8889::/24
>-------------------- ----------  -------  -------  --------------
>Zone: North America   318243350  100.00%    5.18%  2346:8000::/12
>
>Implementing such a system would change the way large(global) LIRs
>request space from RIRs. As of today, they would typically request one
>/32 per RIR. For people the size of Sprint, they would then have to
>request a /32 per country they service and assign space to customers
>from the correct prefix.
>
>What this means to large LIRs is a large initial number of prefixes, but
>it's not fundamentally worse than an always-growing number of /32s when
>IPv6 finally takes off IMHO.
>
>For smaller LIRs that service only one country, there would be no
>change.
>
>There would be some impact on the GRT as there would be a "SPRINT-USA"
>block, an "ATT-USA" block, a "SPRINT-GERMANY" block, an "ATT-GERMANY"
>block, etc. In other words, what we are looking at is one /32 prefix per
>country per large LIR, opposed to as many /32s a large LIR would need in
>the long run anyway.
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>
> > - inside that RIR allocation, use the binary chop algorithm
> >   described in RIPE-261 for the RIR->LIR distribution.
>
>I'm not familiar with this; would that be something like RFC3531?
>
>Michel.