David, Whilst I agree with what you are saying in that the RIPE community has identified issues, and that it is time to go into more detail to define a workable allocation policy. It would help if we had insight into what the 3 RIR thoughts are regarding these issues. I know that a new policy document will be published very shortly, and we should hopefully see what progress has been made towards a workable allocation policy. Personally I feel that it has taken far to long for a revised allocation policy to materialize, since review of the current document started in October 1999. Almost two years on we don't have new draft-policy we can even discuss let alone implement. Anyway I'll stop going on about it and look forward to reading the new draft :) Regards, Stuart
-----Original Message----- From: David Kessens [mailto:david@IPRG.nokia.com] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:46 PM To: BIDRON Alain BRX/DAP Cc: Stephen Burley; lir-wg@ripe.net; ipv6-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: 90 IPv6 sub-TLA allocations made
Alain,
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:45:24PM +0200, BIDRON Alain BRX/DAP wrote:
Do we really need to explore solutions again or do we need
a new Draft
from the RIRs taking into account those proposals and the consensus expressed around, and able to be approved by the community ?
I think that the problem description is quite clear. I think that it is also clear that a majority of the people would like to have a larger initial allocation.
However, it is not clear how big such an allocation should be, whether there should be a uniform size of the initial allocation, whether multi-national registries should be able to get more than one allocation etc.
Next, we will also need to take a look at the definition of 80% utilization, when people can come back to the regional registries for more address space and how much address space they will get when they come back and qualify for more address space.
It's up to us as the RIPE community to identify these issues and to advise the RIPE NCC on how to fix the current policy. So far, we have done quite a good job in identifying the issues, it's now time to go in more detail in order to define a workable allocation policy.
David K. ---