[140521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 foot-dragging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu May 12 19:46:43 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0C9E3242@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:44:57 -0700
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 12, 2011, at 3:49 PM, George Bonser wrote:
>> In the RIPE region, being multihomed or planning to be it is not a
>> sufficient condition for getting a PI prefix. And even if it was, the
>> hit on DFZ is the same as from getting allocation from LIR. Even if
>> they get their own /32, the hit would be the same (modulo individual
>> FIB/RIB implementations).
>> Consequently, there's work in progress to modernize RIPE IPv6 address
>> policy.
>> http://ripe62.ripe.net/presentations/148-wg.pdf p. 19 and forward.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>
> Martin,
>
> Possibly the hit might be the same, but possibly not. An organization
> that requires a second /48 from their upstream might get one that can't
> be aggregated with the previous one. It is my understanding that ARIN
> is attempting to structure their assignments so that if such growth
> occurs in PI space, it is likely (though not guaranteed) that the
> network will get a subsequent allocation that can be aggregated with the
> first.
>
> George
>
Policy dictates that they reserve at least to the /44 for /48 assignments.
Owen
