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Below is an excerpt from the IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy:
5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria "d)"
"To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an organisation must [...] have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organisations within two years."
1. According to this criterion, LIRs who are operators planning to only make /64 assignments appear not to qualify. Was this the community's intention?
I personally think this is silly. Then again I have a hard time understanding why you would not give out a /48 to each customer or "site".
2. There are a number of interpretations of requirement "d)":
- NUMBER OF ASSIGNMENTS
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least 200 separate /48 assignments. Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 assignments and the size of each must be a /48.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make at least the equivalent of 200 /48 assignments. Possible scenario: LIR can assign one /41 and seventy-two /48s.
Which interpretation was intended regarding the number of assignments?
Why not just "200 assignments"? And oh, while we are at it, why 200 assignments?
- RECIPIENT OF ASSIGNMENTS
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to 200 separate organisations (regardless of which organisation). Possible scenario: LIR can make 1 assignment to its own organisation and 199 assignments to 199 "different" organisations.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these 200 assignments to 200 separate organisations outside of its own infrastructure. Possible scenario: LIR must make 200 assignments to 200 "different" organisations. Assignments to its own organisation will not be counted.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200 separate networks (regardless of which organisation these networks belong to). Possible scenario: LIR makes 200 assignments to 200 networks. 100 can be for its own infrastructure and 100 can be for another single organisation.
-- The LIR has to have a plan to make these assignments to 200 separate networks outside of its own infrastructure. Possible scenario: LIR makes 200 assignments to 200 networks "outside of its own infrastructure".
Which interpretation was intended regarding the recipient of assignments?
Actually non from the RIPE community if I remember. But we discussed this before. IF we want to stay with the 200 limit, I would say 200 assignments. Period. - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQM+JAaarNKXTPFCVEQIVHQCfaApDWVknpVsKo/qUQB6DtDdJvu8AoLuQ ix5Dx9pTA5w2gU62swoVUiNN =PRPl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----