dr@cluenet.de disait :
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Vincent Gillet wrote:
The RIPE NCC received the IPv6 address range 2003:0000::/18 from the IANA in January 2005.
Yep, and 50% of this allocation as already been allocated to one LIR.
I am not used to see 50% of IANA block allocated to LIR, but i assume that it is new address-policy rules i was not aware of !
Those are in place since longer. Take customer count and HD-Ratio and do the maths. It's simple, and DTAG would probably have qualified for more if they really wanted.
France Telecom has a couple of million customers too I guess. A /20 can be justified by approx. 3.2 million, a /19 needs ~5.5mio.
I am ok this the size /whatever. My concern is the difference about /18 allocation from IANA versus /19 allocation to LIR thus a 50% immediate usage. If France Telecom get a /19 too, it is full ==> . Ripe would request another block to IANA, . adminitrative work, . need to notify LIRs about this new block .... . need to update filters oncemore, .... I am more concerned with Operations. Update filtering is part of my job. Vincent.