Gert Doering <gert@space.net> writes: > Yes. But then they need an upstream provider that is willing to announce > a single-homed customer /32 - which might just be much more expensive than > giving the end site a /48 of their space. Which I could imagine as a > way to let market regulate whether someone "needs" their own /32. Why? If it there was a significat effect of costs on prefix announcement, we wouldn't see the huge number of (pseudo-) PI prefixes in today's table. I don't see a technical difference between announcement of an IPv4 PI /24 and an IPv6 /32 which would imply a significant difference in costs. Thus you will get an upstream for your v6 /32 as easily as now do for your v4 /24. The proposal poses the interesting question of other conditions to becoming LIR apart from costs. Currently RIPE requires a minimum of imediately assigned address space. What if anyone wants to become LIR for IPv6 only? Was this discussed? Yes. If they want to come and get IPv6 only there is no minimum criteria. Only that you become an LIR. Others can correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think so. Mirjam specifically talked about how they have a minimum requirement for IPv4 space, but in the beginning they didn't. The requirement now is because folks figured out the "I can get one and not be an ISP" thing. So if you pay your money and become a LIR you get a /32. That's what was proposed. I am sure there are minutes of the meeting by now. Nope, just looked they're not there yet.
"For a limited period (the first 2000 requests in each RIR region was suggested) allocate a /32 to ANY LIR requesting their IPv6 allocation (subject to documentation of first IPv6 assignment)
This is what was presented in the working group summary. I wrote it down verbatim off of the overheads. There was a promise of the documentation of the whole discussion. I am sure that's taking a while since it was quite lengthy. Sorry to ask since I wasn't at the meeting: What was said about larger allocation sizes than /32, e.g. for multinational ISPs for which a /32 does not provide sufficient space for reasonable aggregation? That was touched upon, but not really talked about in detail. Anne from APNIC brought it up as one of her concerns. Don't worry about not being at the meeting. The weather was cold and wet. :-) ---CJ