Hi, On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:54:45PM +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
In addition, I don't see any good reason to wait until LIRs come and ask for IPv6 space. It's not scarce and the vast majority of IPv4 LIRs will be deploying IPv6 sometime. So why don't we just give every single one of them an IPv6 /32 today. Instead of creating barriers to the adoption
I have proposed that myself in the past. People don't like it. In retrospect, it's not such a good idea anyway. I strongly hope that a few of the big DSL ISPs will start deploying IPv6 "soon", and they might need much more space than a /32, eventually even more than a /29. So the scheme "give everyone a /32, and reserve a /29" isn't going to work for all of the networks, and I hope it's going to be changed "soon" anyway (allocation of much bigger blocks ICANN -> RIRs, and then use something similar to the "binary chop" proposed in RIPE-261 for the distribution RIR->LIRs [or maybe do by-country]). Because of this, I'd rather not take this approach. (Of course it's highly important that *if* a LIR comes asking, the /32 will be granted quickly and without annoying buerocracy :) - and if a LIR has a good deployment plan for something bigger than a /32, it will also work out without major pains. I've seen a /31 allocated, so it *can* be done!) Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 57386 (57785) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299