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Re: [GLOBAL-V6] New draft available: IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Global Policy
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:25:46PM -0800, CJ Wittbrodt wrote:
> 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.
Yes, this is what was agreed upon. Every LIR, no matter whether old
or new, could get a /32 by asking for it.
I do not think that this will lead to a "land rush" on /32s (to answer
that concern en passant). Why should it? What's the benefit for an
end site?
Most of the companies that want to be "independent" will find one way
or the other to achieve this - either by announcing /48s all over the
region and possibly the world, or by opening a LIR, or by claiming they
want to be soooo multihomed (and maybe setting up a peering with some
other "independent" company to prove it). We have to be able to
solve *this* - teach 'em that BGP multihoming with "PI" space is just
one of many solutions, and develop more attractive solutions - instead
of hindering IPv6 progress any further.
Gert Doering
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