My opinions.. On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Laura Cobley wrote:
Below is an excerpt from the IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy:
5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria "d)"
"To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an organisation must [...] have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organisations within two years."
1. According to this criterion, LIRs who are operators planning to only make /64 assignments appear not to qualify. Was this the community's intention?
The recommended policy is to make /48 assignments, so encouragement in this policy does not hurt. So, I'd maybe interpret this as "if you plan to make so many /64 assignments that 200 /48's wouldn't be enough, you may get an allocation". Means that guide LIRs towards Doing the Right Thing wrt. assignments are not a bad idea.
2. There are a number of interpretations of requirement "d)":
- NUMBER OF ASSIGNMENTS
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least 200 separate /48 assignments. Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 assignments and the size of each must be a /48.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least the equivalent of 200 /48 assignments. Possible scenario: LIR can assign one /41 and seventy-two /48s.
Which interpretation was intended regarding the number of assignments?
IMHO, the former. The latter would be a loophole, and there shouldn't be a need for making many allocations larger than /48 in any case (and if they are made, there will have to be permission from RIPE NCC in any case, as of today)
- RECIPIENT OF ASSIGNMENTS
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to 200 separate organisations (regardless of which organisation). Possible scenario: LIR can make 1 assignment to its own organisation and 199 assignments to 199 "different" organisations.
No, your own allocations are not counted.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to 200 separate organisations outside of its own infrastructure. Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 assignments to 200 "different" organisations. Assignments to its own organisation will not be counted.
This was what was meant, I think.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200 separate networks (regardless of which organisation these networks belong to). Possible scenario: LIR makes 200 assignments to 200 networks. 100 can be for its own infrastructure and 100 can be for another single organisation.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200 separate networks outside of its own infrastructure. Possible scenario: LIR makes 200 assignments to 200 networks "outside of its own infrastructure".
These two are just variants of the above assuming that "NUMBER OF ASSIGNMENTS" (above) does not need to be at least 200. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings