The thing that I would like to remind is that the decision making about two letter country TLDs subdomains are given to LIRs residing in the same country.I would like to ask why the same approach is not implemented about IPv6 address space allocation.
Because a host ending in .gr is not obliged to reside withing the geographical boundaries of Greece (and this is true for many country TLDs). Also, you have .com, .net, .org, .edu (and comming .inc .whatever) TLDs that are not bounded within a country. This is the case for TLDs.
Now immagine this:
You have company A based say in Greece. Now company A opens offices AB in Bulgaria. Should company A get another address space slice for AB offices, or should it use addresses from the A slice, assuming there exists a direct connection from A to AB?
Why make things more complicate than they already are? The geography on the Internet is different that the "physical" one, which is the one the Telcos use.
The thing that I would like you consider is that we have enough address space availble trough IPv6.I have two remarks here: 1- why should IPv6 address space alocation follow the same procedure as IPv4 while we had address space limitation there and we do not have address space limitation in IPv6 then we must ease address space allocation in IPv6. currently I have to run a procedure for each end user who whishes to get address space and I have ensure RIPE that the address space is really needed.end users do not have this permistion to reserve address space. that's ok while we are dealing with IPv4 , but what about IPv6? all of us know that designing a network with larger address space is easier and we can consider further developments too, address space is not fragmented and the network can run with higher performance. routers will have smaller routing tables and we can save RAM and CPU resources.due to limited address space in IPv4 it was not possible. optimizations was based on minimizing required address space , with IPv6 we can optimize the network design based on less resource usage and higher performance. 2- make address space allocation in IPv6 Localized. we can allocate some prefixes for countries , say put aside 2 bytes of address space. no? put aside 3 bytes, more or less put some space for countries. in 2 byte version we would have 65536 country codes while we do not have such amount of countries.RIRs can assign some prefix to companies which act international.let say a company whishes to act nation wide after a while he decides to have an office in an other country. he must register his office in that country and get some permission for his activities there, let they get an address space assignment from LIR in that country besides other permissions they have to get.they can do this or negotiate with a IR to get a multi-national or international prefix. how much effort is needed for this? and compare it with this procedure that I have to negotiate and get approval from RIPE whenever an ISP in my country needs address space. Best Regards Hamid Alipour
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