Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Policy Proposal for LACNIC Region

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Leo and all,

leo vegoda wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >Regarding the "200 customers", not in the RIPE region many NRENs have
> >allocations even though they do not have 200 universities to serve.  There
> >has to be some flexibility in the RIR interpreting the intent of the
> >applicant, rather than the applicant playing the numbers game to get their
> >request granted.
>
> Where this happens it tends to be because universities plan to assign a
> /48 to each student or staff "customer" with a connection to the
> university network.

  Yes and this was a bad practice Jon Postel enguaged in with IPv4
experiments that weren't really experiments..

>
>
> >I would much rather see consistent text in all RIRs than divergence of
> >policies.
> >
> >One area that is a little fuzzy (I would welcome clarification) is the
> >experimental allocations that RIRs can make.  These would seem the place
> >for some consistency (in policy and pricing!) now that 6bone prefixes
> >are no longer available.   Any small startups or experimenting ISPs could
> >then utilise such address space, helping the bootstrap issue while keeping
> >a more consistent policy?
>
> In the RIPE region these are time limited and intended for real
> experiments rather than ISPs that want to try out IPv6.

  Ok, good idea here, but how does one make such a determination
accurately?

>
>
> The experiment needs to be documented, whether "in the form of a current
> IETF Experimental RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt see Sec.
> 4.2.1) or an 'experiment proposal' detailing the resources required and
> the activities to be carried out".
>
> Additionally, the results of the experiment have to be "published free
> of charge and free from disclosure constraints."

  Why?

>
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6policy.html#experiment-assignments
>
> Regards,
>
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> leo vegoda
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