Hi, On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:04:45PM +0200, Turchanyi Geza wrote:
There is a common rule, the HD ratio. It is in an RFC.
Indeed, currently all regions have the HD ratio rule, and they even have the same number for it. But if you look at how that came to be, it's more due to the historic evolution of the IPv6 alloction policies in the first place than to any governing standard that says "it must be so".
This divergence is a problem, I think.
Evidence so far doesn't seem to back that, and I have not seen anyone else stand up recently and voice their wish for a unified global IPv6 assignment and allocation policy. Regions are different, and this is why we *have* 5 regional IRs, to take that into account.
To the contrary, every region is free to make their own IPv6 policy that suits their membership. ARIN has had differences ("distinct networks" policy) for the longest time, as had RIPE ("PI multihoming requirements", not everybody else had that), and so on.
This is an argument or a counter argument?
It is to show that you should make up your mind. Regarding IPv6 PI, you were *opposing* a proposal that made the polices more comparable on a global basis. Now what, do you want equal policies, or not?
My problem is that the divergencies invented in the RIPE region make the creation of a common policy harder.
Creation of a common policy is not a particular goal of this working group, unless someone brings up a policy proposal explicitely tagged as "global policy proposal" (which we need as soon as it affects ICANN to RIR distribution). There will always be cases where one region introduces a change that will be picked up by other regions - or not, if that change is not suitable for other regions. So policy might re-synch itself, or might not. So while we listen to you, that particular argument in itself is no reason to stop or change 2011-04. We do regional policy. (And yes, I'm aware that there is only one global routing table. 2011-04 will not introduce extra prefixes, and one /29 will take exactly as much TCAM space as one /32). Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279