Hi Jordi, On 21 Jun 2007, at 7:38am, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
We are talking about two different things/cases.
Both proposals may seem as related, but actually they are not.
In fact, we can't relate both policy proposals also, because it is not clear that 2006-01 will go further (at least not with the actual text), as I didn't got inputs to my last replies to previous inputs :-( So it is difficult for me to keep going w/o community review.
2006-01 seems to have had a couple of dozen comments on it over the last month, actually. Are you referring to something else?
2006-02 is intended for entities that have their own network with multiple sites.
I think the intention makes sense but the phrasing of the policy text needs some work. It looks like you want an end site to qualify for a /32 IPv6 allocation if it needs to make *any* size of assignment to multiple internal sites. But the text doesn't actually define what one of these internal sites is. That creates a problem for anyone that wants one of these /32 allocations because they can't work out if they qualify for it or ought to try and get a /47 (or whatever) under the IPv6 PI policy. If the policy text is confusing it's going to create lots of extra work for the requesters and the RIPE NCC.
Those sites behave as end-sites to the "internal" ISP. This is for example the case of Universities, or NATO (just to mention a clear case) that already have indicated in the list their need. I don't see those as PI cases, because they are by their own real ISPs, even if for the same entity, they have their own NOC, staff, etc. to manage the network.
Instead 2006-01 is looking for PI cases, for example a data center.
So I don't see the need to stop 2006-02, and what it is really needed is to get more input on 2006-01 !
I think the issue still remains: 2006-01 and 2006-02 need to work together closely. Presumably, a network that does not qualify for a / 47 should not qualify to receive a /32. Or should it? If it should not then how does this policy text ensure that? Because as far as I can tell there isn't a good definition of what one of these 'final' sites is, so anyone can claim that every /64 in their internal network is a site and get a /32 allocation. Regards, -- Leo Vegoda IANA Numbers Liaison