Hi, On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:38:29PM +0200, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
I talked this week in Santa Monica to Doug Barton (copied) IANA General Manager. [..] I believe the document being followed for this is RFC2450 (ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2450.txt), authored by Bob Hinden (copied).
Indeed, this might be the root of all evil. Section 5.1, the "Sub-TLA" stage (which boils down to /23s). The really bad thing about this is twofold: - this document should have never been written - the IETF shouldn't try to micro-manage the whole registry system, and the IANA shouldn't micro-manage the individual RIRs. - and the fact that ICANN is slavishly following a document that was written in December 1998 and says about itself "the proposed TLA and NLA assignment rules described in this document are intended for the first two years of IPv6 TLA address assignments" without actually *telling* people about the problem, and without getting people to actually *update* these guiding rules, somewhere in the years between 2000 and 2004. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 60210 (58081) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299