On Mon 14 Jun 2004 10:38, Oliver Bartels wrote:
If IPv6 should ever get some significant growth, please *make it as easy as possible* to implement it. Please *avoid unnecessary buerocracy*.
There was a proposal, at RIPE-48, to abolish the 200 customer requirement altogether. (Don't remember by whom). The reasoning being that it raises the bar to IPv6 adoption unneccessarily. For the record, I support this argument.
It is very unlikely that some LIR would *only* make /64 assignments (DSL ?), but:
Mobile telcos?
In my view it was the fear that small blocks would increase the IPv6 global routing table size.
This is a technical problem and thus a technical solution should be looked for. Why should hardware vendors determine IP allocation policy? Best regards, Sascha Luck -- Eirconnect | voice: 353 21 2307195 NSC Campus | fax: 353 21 2307197 Mahon, Cork | mailto:sascha@eirconnect.net Ireland | http://www.eirconnect.net