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Most of the existing IPv6 policy set went into effect August 1, 2002, in the ARIN region. The provisional IPv6 policy set in place before that did not exclude end-sites from obtaining IPv6 address space from ARIN. Richard Jimmerson Director of External Relations American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Pekka Savola > Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:31 AM > To: Joe Abley > Cc: Stephen Sprunk; Paul Vixie; North American Noise and > Off-topic Gripes > Subject: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] > > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Joe Abley wrote: > >> So you're claiming that any IPv6 PI applicant without your > political > >> connections to the IESG, ARIN, IANA, etc. can get a /32? I don't > >> know exactly how many subnets/hosts ISC has, but I seriously doubt > >> ISC could even get a PI /48 if you weren't buddies with the folks > >> making allocation decisions. > > > > Nobody is required to count hosts or subnets in order to justify a > > request for PI v6 space from an RIR. All an applicant needs > to do is > > meet the criteria laid out in the policies, and addresses > are assigned or allocated. > > > > Anybody who wants to examine the real policies should go > and look at > > the source documents at ARIN, but to paraphrase them here, an > > applicant who operates an exchange point, or operates critical > > Internet infrastructure can obtain a PI /48 assignment from > ARIN for > > that purpose; an applicant who has a plan to assign PA addresses to > > 200 other organisations within 2 years can get a /32 to > make the assignments from. > > Actually, the policy also specifies that you must not be an end-site. > > I'd be particularly interested in knowing what ISC said who > would be their 200 other organizations who they intended to > allocate the address space (their employees?), and how ISC > would not be an end-site. > > This is a more generic issue, of course. > > -- > Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the > Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." > Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings >
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