Hi, Both of these proposals change the onus on an LIR from having "... a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organisations within two years." to having "... a plan for making at least 200 assignments to other organisations within two years." While this increases flexibility it still has an arbritrary feel to it. Why 200 assignments? I can see that this is meant to prevent the numberspace becoming too fractured, so reducing the size of the routing table. However, I worry that it may have the side effect of imposing a hierarchy of ISPs within IPv6 that does not meet the requirements of smaller organisations. It seems there is little interest at present within the larger UK-based ISPs in providing IPv6, (with the exception of NTT-Verio), and this change won't affect that. Is there a better way to encourage the uptake of IPv6 without preventing exponential routing table growth? Ian ----- Forwarded by Ian Meikle/Nominet on 27/07/06 15:53 ----- Filiz Yilmaz <filiz@ripe.net> Sent by: address-policy-wg-admin@ripe.net 27/07/06 12:42 Please respond to filiz@ripe.net To policy-announce@ripe.net cc Hans Petter Holen <hph@oslo.net>, Kurtis Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>, Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>, address-policy-wg@ripe.net Subject [address-policy-wg] 2005-08 New Draft Documentis Published (Proposal to Amend the IPv6 Assignment and Utilisation Requirement Policy) PDP Number: 2005-08 Proposal to Amend the IPv6 Assignment and Utilisation Requirement Policy Dear Colleagues As you might remember, it was decided during RIPE 51 that the proposal described in 2005-08, "Proposal to Amend the IPv6 Assignment and Utilisation Requirement Policy" should be split into two parts. Accordingly, we have published two draft documents. You can find the draft documents at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/2005-08-56s.html defining allocation efficiency measurement unit as /56 and http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/2005-08-hd-ratio.html changing the HD ratio value to 0.94 You can find the full proposal at: http://ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2005-08.html We encourage you to read the draft document text and send any comments to address-policy-wg@ripe.net before 24 August 2006. Kind regards, Filiz Yilmaz RIPE NCC Policy Development Officer