Hi, On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:26:08PM -0400, Thomas Narten wrote:
Looks like every enterprise out there would also get a /32. If they are willing to undergo the necessary paperwork, and pay the yearly fees, yes.
And how does this scale going forward? I.e., when folk figure out that all they have to do to get their very own PI address space is join RIPE and pay the fee?
Yes. This is how it works with IPv4 PA blocks right now (in RIPE land) - and *these* blocks are *not* what's filling the routing tables with 150k routes, given that we have only a few thousand RIPE members.
If you're worried about a landslide: let's put an (arbitrary) safety margin in there "only 5000 prefixes are handed out, then we stop and re-evaluate policy".
So, we repeat the IPv4 experience where the early birds get a precious resource, while the late arrivers have to play under changed rules (that they view as being unfair)?
I thought one of the goals with IPv6 address policy was _NOT_ to repeat the mistakes of the past.
The only way to avoid *all* mistakes is to avoid giving anybody address space at all. There is no way to come up with a policy that decides today who is "worthy" that will not be challenged by someone else in 10 years. Or next week. Personally, I'd go for a handful of mistakes (and I'm willing to put enough RAM in my routers to handle 10.000 entries in the IPv6 BGP tables) if that means "we'll start making progress" - because if IPv6 isn't going to take up soon, it's dead. 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