Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:26:44AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> *) this is another thing RIR's+IANA have been incredibly stupid about,
> much less stingy to a harmful degree: come on, with one IANA /23
> allocation, you can only make 64 "sTLA" allocations.  If IANA had given
> each RIR e.g. a /16, the longest-prefix match might have resulted in
> useful results so that when destination has addresses from RIPE and ARIN
> region, the source who is in ARIN region might have chosen the ARIN
> destination... but NO.

Actually that's an important point (longest-prefix match) for the ongoing
discussion about ripe-261.  But that should go to lir-wg.

Gert Doering
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