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

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:54:28PM -0800, CJ Wittbrodt wrote:
>     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.  

Yes.  But then they need an upstream provider that is willing to announce
a single-homed customer /32 - which might just be much more expensive than 
giving the end site a /48 of their space.   Which I could imagine as a 
way to let market regulate whether someone "needs" their own /32.

I am truly convinced that we can NOT solve the "I want to be independent"
problem at registry level (or at least "not without doing real harm to
some of the people we want to be 'in'").

Adding a rule like "you get a /32 only if you're multihomed" will make
things worse, because "they" will then get a /32 *and* an AS number.

Gert Doering
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