Hi Nick, address-policy-wg-admin@ripe.net wrote on 29/07/2006 09:43:17:
While this increases flexibility it still has an arbritrary feel to it. Why 200 assignments?
Please see:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2006-02.html
The intention is to replace the completely arbitrary "200 /48's" with "a
reasonable number of /48's". In fact, they mean the same thing, because
any LIR can have a *plan* to assign 200 x /48s, regardless of whether this plan is ever going to be implemented or not.
I agree with the change in wording in 2006-02, but I don't think they amount to the same thing. The 200 x /48s acts as a psychological barrier preventing many people from asking for IPv6, and none of us wants to lie to the hostmasters, do we?
But this is not particularly relevant to proposal 2005-08.
True, and I felt I should point out that I didn't support that part of 2005-08. Ian