We can indeed give IPv6 prefixes for free, give every household a /32, and we'll probably not run out yet... But is that really what people want?
Precisely. Any entity with a free will is entitled to a part of IPv6 space free of charge. And yes we will need enough addresses pointing to every cell in a human body. Wether current policies and architecture support it and if such space will be used any time soon is another question under discussion, e.g. RAM, etc. Thanks, Peter --- Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
Alain Patrick AINA wrote:
On Friday 22 June 2007 14:18:25 Jeroen Massar wrote:
Alain Patrick AINA wrote:
This does not meet the requirements above. So you won't get it. It fully does, how else did AFRINIC assign a /32 to themselves?
This would have been your question instead of concluding so negatively on a global note.
Excuses, I will try to add a short bullet pointed list of items next time with a nice animated powerpoint presentation and an executive summary to make my question come across to you.
I've sent it to all the RIR lists as it affects global policy decisions: that a single RIR is acting in their own good without even having asked their own membership about this situation.
Their statement of "we are a RIR we know what we are doing" is not good enough, especially as there is no active policy actually allowing them to request such a allocation even under their own policies.
Any policy that simply allows any party to get a /32 without justification is the same as when IPv4 started out, where everybody simply got a /8. Indeed at that timepoint there was enough space, but what is the main complaint from various people nowadays: that they should have gotten less as they didn't need it in the first place.
We can indeed give IPv6 prefixes for free, give every household a /32, and we'll probably not run out yet; and if we do we have another 7 tries when 2000::/3 runs full. But is that really what people want? To simply squat on the address space as much as possible, so that you at least have it?
Not a good thing, especially not a good thing when a RIR does it themselves.
Greets, Jeroen
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