A have made a request for a IPv6 PI / 48 allocation for my hosting facility.

I am mostly hosting shared services, but I also have a lot of Co-located services for my customers.

I am already multihomed to have redundancy from two ISPs for IPv4 and I am going to setup the IPv6 Network the same way.

My ASN is 196704, and I am multihoming trough IP-Only (AS12552) and Telenor (AS8434).

My sponsoring LIR says that I can get an assignment from their PA-space right away, BUT then I would not be multi-homed, so that is NOT an option.

The answer I get from you (RIPE) is:

I need to be multihomed because i feel its safer to have redandancy from separate upstreams with separate infrastructure than buying the redundancy from one provider.

My business is to keep servers running in my hosting facility, part of them owned by me, part of them owned by the customers.

Some servers are shared among several customers, some are dedicated to one customer only.

With todays technology as far as I know I must have separate IPs for SSL-enabled services.

Is it RIPEs hidden agenda to put small hosting facilitys out of business with IPv6 and force all customers to use the bigger ISPs?

When I requested my IPv4 PI allocation, I was already planning to also run with IPv6 to be prepared for the future and somehow try to help with the transition to IPv6, so people dont have the arguments that we dont use IPv6 because there is no services, its now so much services from a global point of view, but it wouldnt be IPv4 only....

 // Janne