At 03:43 PM 1/19/99 +0000, Rute Sofia wrote:

At the 31th RIPE Meeting was said that by January 1999 RIPE would start delegating IPv6 addresses:

"January 1999: start allocating IPv6 addresses (depends on IANA to be ready to allocate to the regional registries and on the registries to get their databases and procedures compliant)".

FCCN is a pTLA at the 6bone and, as a service provider is interested in having real IPv6 addressing space as soon as possible.

We would like to know, if possible, what is the sate of IPv6 address allocation, and what is the procedure one has to follow in order to obtain IPv6 addresses.

Currently, and for the last two months, the three registries (ARIN, APNIC, RIPE-NCC) have said they would start assigning TLA/Sub-TLAs in 1Q99, which I'm interpreting to mean by end March 99. As for how to submit, given your IPv6 experience as a pTLA on the 6bone, if you are ready to provide production IPv6 services as a provider (i.e., not as an end-site) you can submit a request to your regisry (presumably RIPE-NCC) in the same form the others of us have for the initial requests (ESnet, Canarie, UUNET-UK, vBNS and WIDE). Just look at the TLA/Sub-TLA Rules draft <http://www.6bone.net/tla-assign-05.txt> section 5 to see what we (the IETF) suggested to the registries for rules of assignment. As I have helped review each of the other requests to date, I would be happy to help you as well. However, if you aren't quite ready to provide production IPv6 service yet, and/or you don't mind waiting until April, I would suggest waiting. You might consider contacting RIPE-NCC and ask them to tell you the status in setting up processes for requesting TLA/Sub-TLAs and their current timeline. Regards, Bob