[70305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri May 7 18:40:12 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405071616490.11702-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 00:37:18 +0200
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 8-mei-04, at 1:18, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> Why so many ip6 blocks at once?
The RIPE NCC gives out /32s to ISPs, but they actually reserve a /29.
This means they have to get a new /23 for every 64 ISPs that request v6
space. I imagine this gets old fast after a while. :-)
What I don't get is that they made it 16 /23s rather than one /19. (And
staying on 4 bit boundaries would also seem like a slightly more
obvious choice.)
> but is ripe really using ip6 20 times more then rest of the world?
Not 20 times obviously... But the ARIN region does very little v6,
while in Europe there are many more small ISPs than in Asia, which
leads to a larger number of assignments/allocations.
