Hi, On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:41:01AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
A company with 200 employees - and a university with 10.000 students - are interesting problems, though. Shall each "home site" get a /48? Or is it "one /48 for the whole company/university, and each home site only gets a /64"? I can't answer that.
The "one /48 fits all" policy sucks.
Perhaps I'd better forward this discussion on the global-v6 policy list.
It might be time to start a new round. Now we have a policy in place that at least doesn't slow down things too much, we need to get the "kinks" out of it... Also the policy is currently explicitely not addressing the problem of very large transit-only ISPs, which clearly do not fall under the current policy but seem to have valid reasons for wanting "independent" address space. While I strictly oppose having a "if you whine loudly enough, we'll give you your /32, no matter who you are" clause, one approach might be: - an enterprise is a LIR - this enterprise has 3+ customers with their own sTLA - this enterprise clearly states "we can't use down- or upstream space" (downstream due to the downstream potentially, upstream because there is no "single" upstream) - this enterprise doesn't want to assign to end users -> give them their own address block, size to be determined I want this to be restrictive, to not invent "PI"...
It seems clear to me that 200 employees are inadequate.. but I believe "internal organizations" is not in the spirit either.
Personally, I admit that I don't mind if Very Big Companies that span multiple continents get their own sTLA. There's not that many of them - even if there are 5000, both the routing system and the address space can easily handle that. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 48282 (47686) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299