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

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:58:08PM +0100, Xavier Henner wrote:
> > the RIRs can not decide who is
> > an "important ISP" and who is a "less important ISP that should 
> > prevented from having their own networks" (by being forced to use
> > upstream addresses from "important ISP" -
> 
> If the RIR have not to check small allocations anymore, they can chack if an
> ISP is big or not.
> 
> Number of transit, peering, bandwidth, number of customer... define if an ISP
> is big or not, and then RIR can decide if it *need* to be independent

This is dangerous ground that you're treading.  The RIRs have historically
done a very good job of NOT trying to judge whether anyone is "worthy or
not" of being multihomed, independed, and what not.  They have concentrated
on managing IP space on the basis of non-discriminatory (!) technical (!)
rules.

[..]
> > renumbering is fairly easy 
> > for end sites, but a PITA for an ISP plus all his customers).
> 
> When an ISP is small, renumbering is not a really big problem.
> DNS changes can be automated.
> Router configuration, if it was good made are not a problem either.
> Host configuration is not a problem at all in v6.

Have you ever done this?  For a single enterprise, renumbering is
not too much work.  But for an ISP, renumbering all their customers is
*hard*, and it is *expensive*.

Gert Doering
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