Re: [JPNIC ip-v6 101] Re: IPv6 sub-TLA allocation service at NIR.

[Anne Lord <anne@apnic.net>]

Tomohiro,

> As Kazu-san said, at the moment it is difficult for us to take on
> responsibility for the data being registered. Of course we'll strongly
> guide our members the requirents written in RIR's policy draft line
> bellow.
>  - sub-TLA holders must register assignment informaton to APNIC DB
>  - Registered data will be used to verify the usage. It affect
>    subsequent allocation and reclamation of addresses.

Yes, this is in fact what I mean. 

Anne
--

> 
>  | > 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?
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> --
> Tomohiro Fujisaki
>