[130956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Oct 18 14:56:13 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:55:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8453F6E1-9632-4740-9AC4-68522EDE86B0@virtualized.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:18 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
>> ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least down to /31)=
.
>=20
> Do they still do that? Back when I was at IANA, one of the justification=
s the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was that they were going to be u=
sing the 'bisection' method of allocation which removes the need for reserv=
ation. Last I heard, APNIC was using the bisection method...
ARIN is doing the same (the 'bisection' method) with our IPv6 management=20
since January 2010: we refer to the "sparse allocation" approach and it=20
was requested by the community during the ARIN/NANOG Dearborn meeting.
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
