[125104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Running out of IPv6" (Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Apr 8 20:17:05 2010
In-Reply-To: <424EBE79812D4637BA6AC1B0A2AA5517@TAKA>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 01:16:27 +0100
From: Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> What I would need if I were to go with IP6 would be to have a parallel
> address for every one of
> my current addresses. Right now we have 2 - legacy /24's and one legacy /=
23
> - thats it.
>
> I'd just need the "equivalent" =A0IP6 space.
The key question is "are you an ISP?". If the answer is yes, then the
IPv6 equivalent
is a /32 block. If no, then it depends on whether more than one site
is involved, since
the allocation size would be a /48 per site.
IPv6 is a combination of classful and classless addressing. The result
of that is
that all allocations are sized to be more addresses than you could possibly=
ever
need in the majority of cases.
> ARIN does provide microallocations, but ICANN forced them to put "for ICA=
NN
> approved
> root service only" into their policy for microallocations, so that leaves=
us
> out.
You fit under "Direct assignments from ARIN to end-user organizations" and
should have no problem getting a /48. If you need multiple sites then
"IPv6 Multiple Discrete Networks" would apply.
--Michael Dillon
