-----Original Message----- From: Alexander Gall [mailto:gall@switch.ch] Sent: 15 January 2003 09:15 To: Gert Doering Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer; Jeroen Massar; 'Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet'; lir-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself
[Probably opening a can of worms here...]
Yuk, worms taste bad .... ;-) <snip>
I agree. The numerics in section 4 of RFC3177 assume that the top 45 bits in 2000::/3 can be utilized with an H ratio of 0.25 (giving on the order of 10^11 /48). IMHO, the problem with the current allocation policy is that it is a lot more conservative than RFC3177 suggests while still holding on to the /48-for-everybody rule. The relatively small LIR allocations create a level of scarcity in the number of /48's, which is enough to make people believe that giving a student as much address space as her entire University is just crazy. However, the whole point of RFC3177 was that this should be completely irrelevant.
It *is* completely irrelevant. Allocate /48s, exhaust existing RIR allocation, get more addresses from RIR. I don't see the problem. -- Mat.