Hi Ruediger,
I certainly support the the motion to remove from the contraints for routing announcements from the address allocation policy; I voiced my support already at the last RIPE meeting with strong words.
Thanks.
Recently a potential downside of the removal of routing constraints from allocation policy came to my attention: NCC resource analysts might begin to encourage or even force LIRs to plan to deaggragate announcements when discussing requests for address space.
I thought the situation at the moment was that the only justification for additional IPv6 addresss space was utilisation (section 5.2 of the policy). Routing considerations are not taken into account, so what we were doing was allowing more people to use IPv6. Are you suggesting the potential deaggregators can already get multiple prefixes per LIR? If that is the case, then perhaps we do not need to relax the aggregation requirement. The proposal does not remove section 3.4 of the policy (goal of aggregation), but attempts to balance that and 3.5 (goal of conservation). Regards, Rob -- JANET(UK) is a trading name of The JNT Association, a company limited by guarantee which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG