Re: [JPNIC ip-v6 100] Re: IPv6 sub-TLA allocation service at NIR.

[Anne Lord <anne@apnic.net>]

Hello Kazu,

> Anne,
> 
> From: Anne Lord <anne@apnic.net>
> Subject: [JPNIC ip-v6 100] Re: IPv6 sub-TLA allocation service at NIR.
> 
> > Let's see.. JPNIC, as an NIR is the custodian of all address space 
> > allocations in Japan. Registration is a fundamental and crucial part 
> > of the responsibilities of an LIR, NIR and RIR. The requirement is
> > that the LIR registers their IPv6 assignments. The NIR has the delegated
> > responsibility for its members to ensure that the data is being 
> > registered, in just the same way as with IPv4.  
> 
> The case for IPv6 is not the same as that for IPv4. 
>
> In the case for IPv4, APNIC allocates IPv4 address blocks and
> delegates the reverse lookup function to JPNIC, for example. So, an
> ISP in Japan requests an IPv4 address block to JPNIC then JPNIC
> assigns an block to the ISP. When ISP updates the JPNIC DB, it is
> JPNIC that sets up reverse lookup for the ISP's customer. This seems
> to work well since JPNIC handles both IPv4 address assignments and
> reverse lookup.
> 
> However, in the case for IPv6, it is APNIC that allocates an IPv6 sTLA
> to an ISP in Japan. When the ISP sets up reverse lookup for customers
> by himself, how to ensure to make the ISP update the *APNIC* DB? 
> 
> In this case, who has responsibility to encourage ISPs to update the
> APNIC DB?
  
JPNIC.  A procedural difference over where the reverse delegations are 
managed from - does not affect the larger principle of registration, 
which is a distributed responsibility through the hierarchy of the 
registry system from IANA-RIR-NIR-LIR.  While an organisation
obtains IPv6 address space through JPNIC and is JPNIC's member,
JPNIC has that responsibility. It goes with the job. 

Does JPNIC have support for an IPv6 network object? If so, your members 
can register in the JPNIC database. This can then be mirrored as it
is today.

However, we may be talking at cross purposes. I am NOT saying that
you must register the data yourselves on behalf of your customers.

Anne
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