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Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32)

  • From: Pekka Savola
  • Date: Sat Nov 27 03:34:59 2004 
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Fred Baker wrote:
So here's my proposal. If you qualify for an AS number (have a reasonable business plan, clueful IT staff, and a certain number of ISPs one connects with), you should also be able to be a PI prefix.

And if you don't qualify for that, you should probably go provider-dependent.
Getting an AS number is too easy, and the resource is depleting fast.

If we went down that path, we'd have to make getting AS numbers more difficult than it is. But this is a challenge, because revoking them from the current users is not doable, and folks would bring up the fairness argument ("ASxxxx is in the same situation as we are, and they have a number; why couldn't we have one as well?").

Thus, it's easier to just stick to the IPv6 address allocation policies, because even if there are a couple of instances of end-sites having obtained a /32, it's still only a few, not tens of thousands as with AS numbers, and the fairness argument doesn't apply.

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