[182324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jul 15 00:16:05 2015
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:15:56 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
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Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> The big difference between IPv4 initial policies and IPv6 initial
> policies is that with IPv4 there were no policies to speak of in the
> early days. Space was handed out more or less willy-nilly - so some US
> organisations ended up with multiple A-classes each, while later on all
> of Vietnam got one /26.
this is not really true. viet nam was not in the early days at all, and
the cause of the small allocation was techno-colonialiasm by telco.
the pre netsol allocations by sri, isc, ... were needs based. but the
allocators had only very gross knobs, A, B, and C. in the early early
days, some big allocations were made to big entities, ibm, dec, at&t,
... some used them well. some have returned them.
randy
