Hi Jeroen, It is great to know that you are paying attention to allocations that are being made in other region. I would like to clarify the reason why APNIC made muliple allocations to UUNET. UUNET have multiple memberships with APNIC based on the networks in the region. As each economy, membership, managing their own address space therefore they also requesting for IP address separately. For aggregation purpose APNIC normally make allocations from contiguous block, as you can see from these allocations. This is similar to making a large allocation to an organisation then they further splitting between network for each economy. I hope the above explanation answered some of your queries if you need further information please feel free to contact us. Regards Son APNIC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ipv6-wg@ripe.net] Allocation behaviour (organisations getting multiple /32's) Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:52:33 +0200 From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> Organization: Unfix To: ipv6-wg@ripe.net
I just noticed that UUNET/MCI got an additional 3 /32's:
inet6num: 2001:4441::/32 netname: UUNET-AU-NETBLOCK-20050708 descr: UUNET Australia Limited descr: UUNET Network country: AU
inet6num: 2001:4440::/32 netname: UUNET-HK-NETBLOCK-20050708 descr: UUNET Worldcom Hong Kong Ltd descr: UUNET Network country: HK
inet6num: 2001:4442::/32 netname: UUNET-JP-NETBLOCK-20050708 descr: UUNET Japan, Ltd descr: UUNET Network country: JP
They where all assigned to 1 person, who apparently works for UUNET/MCI in the US, not even the APNIC region, not even a role.
Did somebody say goodbye to aggregation?
Btw UUNET also has: 2001:600::/32 (Europe)
Apparently nothing in the US, in total 4x /32. 4 slots gone away. Are all global companies going to request separate /32's ?
Greets, Jeroen
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