Mirjam, On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
A working group was created to discuss allocation policies. This working group also discussede the initial allocation criteria as proposed in the current draft (with participation on the 6bone added as one criteria).
The wg was (interim-)chaired by: Sandra Reimer from McLeadUSA. I hope we will be able to get the minutes from her as soon as possible.
The feedback was very positive, also regarding the slow start mechanism. We also received useful input regarding some of the parameters in the allocation criteria, for example 12 for the number of months within which IPv6 services will have to be provided and 42 :-) for the number of customers the ISP has to have in one of the other criteria (we'll probably round this up or down in the final document :-)
It was my impression that the number of 42 was the optimal number and that nobody wanted to have anything less/more ;-). There is no reason to start playing again with those numbers. Another point that was discussed was the removal of the condition entirely since the other condition (intent to provide IPv6 service) was easier to qualify for anyways. The biggest concern left was the slow start procedure within the sTLA. It was discussed at length but no agreement could be reached. The registries want to have some kind of control against allocations that are given out that are not used as they are supposed to be used, while at the same time most customers of the registries would obviously like to have maximum freedom & minimal paperwork. The registries asked for alternatives that would have the same effect - one of the variations that was discussed, was to make the slow start even slower (eg.: you can only assign a very small number of NLAs before returning to the registry), and to allocate the full space soon thereafter. It was agreed that more discussion this topic would be needed. David K. ---