New IPv6 Address Block Allocated to RIPE NCC
Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2003:0000::/18 from the IANA in January 2005. You may wish to adjust any filters you have in place accordingly. More information on the IP space administered by the RIPE NCC can be found on our web site at: <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/smallest-alloc-sizes.html> Regards, -- leo vegoda Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC
Hi Leo,
The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2003:0000::/18 from the IANA in January 2005.
Yep, and 50% of this allocation as already been allocated to one LIR. I am not used to see 50% of IANA block allocated to LIR, but i assume that it is new address-policy rules i was not aware of !
BTW, i read 2001:2000::/20 ===> smallest RIPE Allocation : /32 and "Smallest allocation" refers to the smallest allocation made to LIRs by the RIPE NCC Since 2001:2000::/20 have only one allocation, should not it be "/20" ? V
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 11:00 +0100, Vincent Gillet wrote:
Hi Leo,
The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2003:0000::/18 from the IANA in January 2005.
Yep, and 50% of this allocation as already been allocated to one LIR.
I am not used to see 50% of IANA block allocated to LIR, but i assume that it is new address-policy rules i was not aware of !
What is the issue with this? Deutsche Telekom can _easily_ show demand for the need for this allocation and that is the only thing they need to do. I actually am very glad that they got this, now let's see how quickly all Germans will have access to IPv6, this should give some momentum to hosters saying "there are no IPv6 clients". This policy has been in place for quite some time already and works for most if not all people, complain address-policy-wg@ripe.net if you really do not like it. Btw we are nearing 1000 global IPv6 allocations over 77 countries ;) 1x /19 2x /20 2x /21 1x /23 59x /24 2x /27 57x /28 2x /30 1x /31 772x /32 11x /35 Totaling in 910 TLA prefixes. 145 of which 6bone, the /24 & /28's + some /32's which will disappear next year (6/6/2006). RIPE (432) APNIC (183) ARIN (130) LACNIC (20) The RIPE region is of course in lead ;) Also see: http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/tla/
BTW, i read
2001:2000::/20 ===> smallest RIPE Allocation : /32
and
"Smallest allocation" refers to the smallest allocation made to LIRs by the RIPE NCC
Since 2001:2000::/20 have only one allocation, should not it be "/20" ?
a /32 is "small", a /20 is "big", thus a /32 is the smallest prefix that will be given from this block. The largest is indeed logically a /20. Greets, Jeroen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Vincent Gillet wrote:
The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2003:0000::/18 from the IANA in January 2005.
Yep, and 50% of this allocation as already been allocated to one LIR.
I am not used to see 50% of IANA block allocated to LIR, but i assume that it is new address-policy rules i was not aware of !
Those are in place since longer. Take customer count and HD-Ratio and do the maths. It's simple, and DTAG would probably have qualified for more if they really wanted. France Telecom has a couple of million customers too I guess. A /20 can be justified by approx. 3.2 million, a /19 needs ~5.5mio. Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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