[82112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Jul 8 15:58:37 2005
In-Reply-To: <42CD1FC4.7090408@nrg4u.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>, Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>,
Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:58:22 -0400
To: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7 Jul 2005, at 08:27, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Err... So you want to protect the incumbent ISP's? Even those once
> started off with 200 customers. Who is going to decide if some (today)
> small ISP is worthy of receiving its own PA space or not?
Pretty much any ISP is capable of obtaining their own PA space under
current RIR policies, regardless of size. The prohibition on PA space
is to end sites, not ISPs.
See, for example:
http://www.arin.net/policy/index.html#six511
The myth that only large, established ISPs are able to obtain PA IPv6
address space really needs to disappear.
Joe
