Hi, On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:34:08AM +0100, Carlos Morgado wrote:
Yes, that is indeed one scenario. But consider the extreme case of an operator which only sells transits to multihomed customers who already have their own address. Unless that operator starts assigning /48s to P-t-P costumer links he'll be hard depressed to come up with 200 nets qualifying as end site on his own infrastructure.
Maybe you misunderstood my last two e-mails. I'm well aware of that problem, but it's tricky to get the policy right here. I think one can tackle this by extending the clause to "200 customers, OR 20 downstream ASes" - or by dropping the clause altogether. [..]
This is well understood by RIPE hostmasters. Right now, the rules are meant to be interpreted in a very relaxed way - this is: if you have 200 or more IPv4 customers (that have addresses from you) that might go to IPv6 *if* it really takes off in the next years, then you qualify.
Or, if the smaller clients with PA IPv4 space have totally diferent time frames than the bigger PI transit clients. Anyway, I see what you mean.
The current focus for the RIPE hostmasters is "make sure IPv6 addresses are available to people wanting to work with it", and not "conserve!!!". [..]
It's more a lir-wg problem (as it's policy, not technical aspects).
I figure interested people are in both lists so I tried to keep cross posting down ;)
It's sometimes unavoidable, as many of the IPv6 things end up in the ipv6-wg, of course, but policy really belongs to lir-wg. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 54495 (54267) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299