On Fri, 10 May 2002, Gert Doering wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 07:42:07PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
Wether that helps you depends on your network - criteria for getting IPv6 allocations boil down to "you must be willing to assign IPv6 networks to a substantial number of third party sites". If you're assigning to research institutes, universities, and so on, the criteria should be easily met.
(The last paragraph: ) Wrong.
Section d), assingning at least 200 /48's is new compared to previous RIPE-only draft policy.
This is a requirement that most NREN's can *not* honestly meet.
Why? I am not a NREN, so I have to rely on what other people tell me, and Wilfried did sound pretty convincing when he claimed that it is easily met if you define "site" accordingly.
After all, every department or even every student @ home can be a site.
Yes. It would be an act of extreme stupidity (IMO) if NREN's started giving addresses and *providing connectivity* (directly) as required by the policy for every department, student @ home, etc. (This must be delegated to universities etc. for practical reasons.) This is against the spirit of "/48 to every organization, no matter how big". This is why is said _honestly_. :-) So let's see: an university of less than about 65,000 people will need a /28 to cope with this (with HD-ratio 80%). Assume a NREN has 20 (usually a lot more but some are small) of these. NREN then requires at least /22 (with HD ratio 80%) to cope with these allocations. Do we really want to go down this road? -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords