Hi, On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:24:31AM +0100, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
In IPv6 the requirement for having plans to have 200 customers exists as a global compromize to make the policy acceptable in alll regions - its was a regiaonaly approved policy - but globaly coordinated.
Now we are facing a review of this policy - some changes has already been made in some regions - and the question is
1) Should we change this criteria - if so - what should the new criteria be - if any at all ? (why should v4 and v6 policy differ)
From the discussions in the APWG mailing list, I understand that most participants seem to be in favour of abandoning the 200-customer rule.
"If you're a LIR, pay your fees, assign to 3rd parties" - that's considered sufficient to receive an allocation. We just never came around to formalize the policy change. (Time to excercise the new policy process...)
2) What would the (global) consequences be of such a change ? (the policy will not be globaly coordinated any more, what about routing table implications ?)
The "global policy" is already out of sync, as LACNIC has already dropped the 200-customer rule... I haven't checked the current state at ARIN and APNIC, though. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71007 (66629) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234