Re: [sig-policy] Final call for comments: prop-033-v001 "End site assignment policy for IPv6"

[Sanjaya <sanjaya@apnic.net>]

Kosuke Ito wrote:

>>>>> + What would be the minimum registration requirements per endsite?
>>>>>  A suggestion JPNIC has is to allow all dynamic assignments and /64s to
>>>>>  be aggregated as LIR's infrastructure, but require all other
>>>>>  assignments per endsite, to be consistent with v4.
>>>> Would there be any particular motivation to deviate from a practice that
>>>> is consistent with Ipv4? (I can't think of any at this stage.)
>>> The reason I can think of is the overall size of the IPv6 space. If people
>>> starts registering /64s and smaller assignments to the NIR/RIR, our disk storage
>>> will fill up rather quickly and the utilization calculation will take longer.
>>> I'm not saying this can't be done.
>>>
>>> Considering that the registration requirement primary reason is to measure
>>> utilization, how about aggregating the assignment report to whatever size the HD
>>> ratio calculation is based on? And can we confirm that it is now based on /56?
>>>
>> I understand the registration requirement as for clarifying who is in
>> responsible of the address space as well as for calculating utilization.
>> Assuming this is the case, wouldn't it blur who is responsible for the
>> address space if we allow aggregation in /56?
> 
> I agree.
> There is no technical reason to say which size.
> It is the matter of balancing between how precisely RIR/NIR need
> to know the utilization of allocated address space and how easy
> each LIR report/register it with the reasonably low overhead.
> 
> Kosuke

Good points Izumi and Kosuke. Other than potential disk space and calculation
issues (not an insurmountable issue whatsoever), I have no objections to either
use the current IPv4 registration requirement or amend it to encourage/require
aggregation at the infrastructure level.

Cheers,
Sanjaya
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