william(at)elan.net wrote:
On Sat, 8 May 2004, leo vegoda wrote:
The point was that while all /48 assignments must be registered, they don't all need to be registered in Whois. I think the expectation is that the vast majority of address space users will have their address space registered in the LIR's private, internal database and not the public, Whois database. The drafters of the policy text had only intended to require registration in Whois when a single organisation received more than a /48.
I would urge you to reconsider. With IPv6 it is expected that almost all assignments to customers will actually be /48 as very very few customers actually need anything more then that (even large companies that currently might have /19 can be fine with /48 ip6).
The problem is that IPSc could (and regarding what I hear would) give out /48s to ther end users [if there is a chance they need more than one subnet]. In our case you would probably end up with ~30000 /48 assigned that way - and as a university we do not have that many DSL end-users. But what about the really big ISPs? At the moment the Ripe DB contains slightly over 1.000.000 Objects. if those ISPs register every /48 they assign, you end up with orders of magnitude more objects - and a consderable higher update-rate. The deeper reason is that the way IPv6 addresses are handed out and the Space is devided, you can have end-users occupying the same IP space as big companies. *If* we rethink the policy, aiming at the prefix-length is imho not the way to do that. lG uk -- Ulrich Kiermayr Zentraler Informatikdienst der Universitaet Wien Network - Security - ACOnet-CERT Universitaetsstrasse 7, 1010 Wien, AT eMail: ulrich.kiermayr@univie.ac.at Tel: (+43 1) 4277 / 14104 PGP Key-ID: 0xA8D764D8 Fax: (+43 1) 4277 / 9140