Re: [GLOBAL-V6] New draft available: IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Global Policy

[CJ Wittbrodt <cjw@groovy.com>]

    From: Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>
    Subject: Re: [GLOBAL-V6] New draft available: IPv6 Address Allocation and 
    Assignment Global Policy
    Hi,
    
    On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:17:41PM +0000, Carlos Friacas wrote:
    > The following are some of my personal views about it...
    > 
    > I agree with almost all of Gert's views on this, my only doubt goes to
    > the "2000 figure". Isnt it a bit small? Why not look at the actual routing
    > table, and project things a bit further? Why not multiply it by 5 or 6?
    
    The figure was not chosen in any highly scientific way.  
    
    It is a figure that is "large enough that nearly every active LIR today 
    can get an IPv6 allocation NOW" (having somewhat over 3000 LIRs in RIPE 
    land, of which some are not active any more, others have merged, and so 
    on), while at the other hand being small enough so that *if* this 
    turns out to be a mistake, it means "6000 'IPv6 swamp' prefixes in the
    global routing table", and this is something the routers can handle.
    
I just want to be clear.  My understanding of what happened in the 
meeting wasn't that each existing LIR could get one, but anyone who 
became an LIR could get one.   This means that existing LIRs can
indeed get one, but so can anyone who is willing to become an LIR.
That was my understanding.

---CJ
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