[98166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Wed Jul 25 11:46:20 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070725121507.GZ14059@MrServer.telecomplete.net>
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:07:49 +0200
To: Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@packetrade.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 25 Jul 2007, at 14:15, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
[...]
> Well, you already say you have major ISPs submitting requests every
> 6 months, and I guess that is your high water mark so everyone else
> should be longer (at lease here under RIPE you are supposed to be
> allocated space for 2 yrs at a time).
A recent policy change means that "The RIPE NCC allocates enough
address space to LIRs to meet their needs for a period of up to 12
months."
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv4-policies.html#5
> So, we have IANA out of space at eof 2009.. that will then take the
> RIRs 12 to 24 mo to allocate that out before there is any impact on
> ISPs.
If there isn't a run on the bank.
Leo
