[75831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Nov 25 12:35:01 2004
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:34:20 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>,
"Ryan O'Connell" <ryan-nanog@complicity.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1101373185.25013.103.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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--On Thursday, November 25, 2004 9:59 AM +0100 Jeroen Massar=20
<jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:49 +0000, Ryan O'Connell wrote:
>> On 25/11/2004 08:07, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>>
>> > It is sourced from AS31459, which is the BBC R&D AS, thus might be
>> > that it is still sort of experimental, but it is there.
>> >
>> > This also proves one big thing to all the people complaining about
>> > getting a TLA. If the BBC can get it, any large organization can get
>> > one. If you can't you simply do not network well enough.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> The BBC are probably a bad example in this case, they're more of an
>> ISP/Content Provider than a typical Enterprise.
>
> Thus do they reach the currently only 'problem rule' that is set to get
> a /32? -> to have 200 sites in the future?
>
The rule does not require you to have 200 sites in the future. The rule
requires you to have a plan to assign addresses to 200 other organizations.
> The BBC is for sure one organization, with likely a couple of sites
> though, but 200 would seem a bit on the high side.
>
If they are reselling IP services, then, likely they can find 200 customers
to assign address space to (or at least have a plan to do so).
> What I am wondering actually, if any of the people who mention they have
> problems with getting an IPv6 TLA, if they even tried getting one... and
> if they did why did it fail? Otherwise one would not complain ;)
>
If I wanted one, I could probably get one. However, that doesn't mean I=20
have
to agree with the current allocation/assignment policy.
Owen
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