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

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

"Alec H. Peterson" wrote:
> 
> --On Thursday, February 7, 2002 17:29 +0100 Brian E Carpenter
> <brian@hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Cathy,
> >
> > Yes, I understand why people are nervous about repeating historical
> > mistakes. What I was clumsily trying to express is that objectively,
> > I don't think we need to be particularly nervous about whether we
> > give out /32 or /35 at the large end, or /48 or /51 (say) at the small
> > end - yes I know that's a factor 8 in each case, but we do have that
> > much slack in terms of available space. What is very nervous-making
> > is the risk of people believing that they need, and can get, PI prefixes,
> > and a lot of the last day's discussion is right on the mark
> > about the risks there.
> 
> So perhaps we should focus on the question of who will get PI allocations
> before we worry about how large those allocations should be?
> 
> Along those lines, perhaps we should figure out how sites are going to
> multi-home, since that will (well, should) have a huge bearing on who gets
> PI alloocations.

Indeed. That is exactly why the IETF has a MULTI6 working group.

   Brian
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