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 04:52:50PM -0800, CJ Wittbrodt wrote:
> [ utilization as criteria ]
>
> Maybe we should look at the people you refer to as wanting to be "in"
> and figure out what distinguishes them from just some end user who
> should have a /48 from their upstream...?

One of thereally problematic ones are research networks that serve a
number of universities.  Like "50 universities".  Each university is
a site, and gets a /48.  So this whole network has a need for about
50 /48s, and will never be able to meet the 776 /48s criteria in the
last draft.  On the other hand, the actual IP address usage will
most likely be much higher than the average, due to /48s being given
to LARGE sites.

So using numbers of /48s as criteria will always be either "too high" or 
"too low to have an effect".

I think one criteria that I would agree to is "some entity that gives
/48s to other entities" (focussing on that aspect of an ISP/LIR).  Now
how to prove that?

On the other hand, if someone really *wants* "PI" space, they can easily 
cheat against this rule (found a separate organization that will "assign
/48s to the other company" and thus fulfills the criteria - or just claim
"we're going to provide ISP services for our customers as well", which 
then accidentially never happens).

Gert Doering
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