At 10:30 02/03/2005, Jon Lawrence wrote:
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:17, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
Whait if I am (mainly) anIPv6 transit provider with 201 customers - all beeing LIR on their own: - I cannot get address space from my upstream because I have none or several depending on my size and definition of "up" - I cant make a plan to assigh 200 /48s since all my customers are LIRs on their own - I am hardly an end site ?
how do I get adresses under the current policy ? If I cannot, how do we modify the policy to alow me to get adresses ?
This is an excellent point to show were the addressing policies puts limitations on the structure of the ISP industry unless we are careful.
IMHO, this is what is wrong with the current policy. It says you should 'PLAN' to assign 200 /48s it doesnot say you 'WILL' assign. In order to obey the letter of the policy you could say that you 'PLAN' to assign each of your customers a /48 - whether they use it is entirely upto them (as they've got their own allocation they would probably never use the /48 from you). This would get you an allocation and be obeying the letter of the policy. You're not strictly lying, but it is a completely pointless use of address space.
It's also a dopey piece of administrative b/s which has no value. Much better that the policy be designed to cover cases like this and encourage people to be honest. That way the database models reality a bit better. -- Tim