[130963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Oct 18 15:27:58 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:27:39 -0400
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Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Randy -=20
=20
We'll likely put that out to the ARIN community for consultation
at the point in time when becomes a potential issue. I expect we=20
will have plenty of time before that needs to be considered at the
present rate of allocation.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> John,
>=20
> Can you tell us at what degree the bisection stops? i.e. does it keep go=
ing until there are no spaces left, or will you leave some space in between=
each one to leave some room for future needs for orgs that already have al=
locations?
>=20
>=20
> -Randy
>=20
> --
> | Randy Carpenter
> | Vice President, IT Services
> | Red Hat Certified Engineer
> | First Network Group, Inc.
> | (419)739-9240, x1
> ----
>=20
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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
>>> justifications the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was that
>>> they were going to be using the 'bisection' method of allocation
>>> which removes the need for reservation. Last I heard, APNIC was
>>> using the bisection method...
>>=20
>> ARIN is doing the same (the 'bisection' method) with our IPv6
>> management
>> since January 2010: we refer to the "sparse allocation" approach and
>> it
>> was requested by the community during the ARIN/NANOG Dearborn meeting.
>>=20
>> FYI,
>> /John
>>=20
>> John Curran
>> President and CEO
>> ARIN
