On 20-aug-04, at 19:57, Ray Plzak wrote:
While your comments do not address the policy proposed on the ARIN list
Hm, I thought this was an IANA thing so it must be the same world wide?
In regard to your comments I have an observation with regard to the amount of IPv4 address space that has been allocated to the RIRs. It is worth noting that the RIRs have not been allocated "around 220" /8s.
Upon rereading it turns out the words didn't come out as I intended. What I meant to say was that there are some 220 /8s in total that may serve as global IPv4 unicast address space, and in the past the RIRs would get one /8 at a time, or about 0.45% of the available address space at a time. The proposed IPv6 policy wants to allocate /6s to the RIRs, which is 12.5% of the currently available global IPv6 unicast space. Now if 0.45% was workable for 10 years in IPv4, I don't see why 12.5% would be necessary in IPv6. Obviously there is some hidden goal that will be met by this policy. I think that before this policy is adopted this goal should be made explicit and there should be consensus that this is indeed an important goal.