Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 08:18:39AM -0700, Michel Py wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No argument here. NRENs do have the same kind of issue in the ARIN
> region too. 

OK.  Good to hear that we're (mostly) in agreement :-)

> Now, has NORDUnet applied for space and be denied it?

They have applied for space, and received it:

inet6num:     2001:0948::/32
netname:      SE-NORDUNET-20021016
descr:        Provider Local Registry
descr:        NORDUnet
country:      SE

there has been a thread on that on one of the IPv6 mailing lists at that 
time (I think Pekka started it) as for the background, and as far as I 
remember, no details about the request are known.

Checking the address block, three /48s have been assigned (two to 
universities, one to NORDUnet itself).

As the request has been approved, one could argue that no change is 
necessary - but from the discussion, I gather that the approval is
definitely questionable, and this is something that makes me unhappy
about this.  I think that the approval was fine (!) but that it wasn't
fully according to the letter of the policy, and as a consequence I
think that the policy needs adaption.

Gert Doering
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