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

[CJ Wittbrodt <cjw@groovy.com>]

    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?

It gives them a provider block that won't be filtered.  If they're 
multihomed this is a benefit. 

    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.
    
Why would they justify or claim anything?  They can just become an LIR
with no justification and get a /32.  

---CJ
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