Anne Lord <anne@apnic.net> writes:
What is an IPv6 IX assignment?
An assignment done by directly RIR from a non-routed block. Nothing very special or warranting a special attribute value for it, IMHO.
I think the distinction is important - it is very useful to be able to label address space as portable or non portable (or PI PA for RIPE) especially as we still encounter many that think that all address space is portable.
Which are portable assignments? I can only possibly see IX assignments and the root server block.
To clarify, the values that APNIC would prefer to use are:
ALLOCATED PORTABLE ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE ASSIGNED PORTABLE ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
This does not take into account that there are no portable addresses,
what is an allocation from an RIR to you as an LIR?
A block from which non-portable addresses are assigned or allocated by the LIR, thus "ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE". Which "ALLOCATED PORTABLE" blocks do you see? How would you distinguish an allocation from RIR to LIR from that of a LIR to some provider ("NLA")? Robert