Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 11:20:11AM -0700, Michel Py wrote:
> There are also some who feel that this bar is too low. There are not too
> many ISPs that have less than 200 customers _and_ are multihomed. There
> is nothing that says that the other organizations have to request the
> IPv6 assignment; an ISP can assign a /48 to each customer as part of the
> default setup. Unless I see specific cases I don't feel 200 is an
> unreasonable number.

Specific case: NORDUnet, the research network serving as an upstream
transit ISP to the nordic european countries's individual NRENs.  As
far as I understand, they have 7 customers, and it's unlikely that this
number is going to grow significantly.

Overall, they are being transit for 47 distinctive ASes, and quite a 
number of them have individual /32s already, so there really is a need
for NORDUnet to have IPv6 addresses, and preferrably not some that
are coming from one of their customers.

Globally, there are a few more of those networks, but not overly many,
so I am convinced that we don't cause much harm when permitting them
to get address blocks.

Gert Doering
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