[30876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Slagle)
Thu Aug 31 23:46:41 2000
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:33:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>
To: "David R. Conrad" <David.Conrad@nominum.com>
Cc: Ted Beatie <ted@mirror-image.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Sorry for the first post david. Hit the wrong key.
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Jason Slagle - CCNA - CCDA
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, David R. Conrad wrote:
>
> > With 15 POPs spread throughout the US and Europe, and
> > more on the way, with exceedingly non-contiguous space obtained from 6
> > different upstreams, it would benefit ourselves as well as our many
> > providers to have our own PI space.
>
> I suspect the number of organizations who can claim "it would benefit
> ourselves as well as our many providers" will greatly exceed the number
> of available routing slots before IPv6 comes anywhere close to being
> significantly deployed.
>
From everything I've read, an originization cannot announce another
originizations address blocks to anyone else under ipv6. It's
forbidden. This would make getting a top level block a REQUIREMENT to
multihome unless you took multiple blocks from multiple providers, but
that gets messy.
Jason
