Re: [sig-policy] Question about IPv6 sub-TLA allocation criteria.

[Anne Lord <anne@apnic.net>]

Hello Fujisaki San

Many thanks for your email. 

> After the bootstrap period, General Criteria will come into effect.
> First rule of this criteria is:
> 
>   a. The requesting organization's IPv6 network must have exterior routing
>      protocol peering relationships with the IPv6 networks of at least
>      three other organizations that have a sub-TLA allocated to them.
> 
> If an organization want to apply sub-TLA with this rule, must the
> organization already have had "peering relationship with three IPv6
> sub-TLA" at the time of application ? Or is it OK if the organization
> have a concrete plan for having peerings at the time of application?

Actually you raise a good point.

The document clearly states "must have exterior routing protocol peering
relationships..."                 ^^^^

which means they must have the peering relationships in place, which 
in turn implies peering at NLA level.

> If peering relationship is needed at the time of application, the
> requesting organization must have address spaces (NLA or SLA) under
> other sub-TLA, and must peer with this address. I think this (peering
> with some organizations using other sub-TLA's NLA address) breaks
> the aggregation model of IPv6.
  
As you point out, this is somewhat contrary to the aggregation model of
IPv6, though I think in reality, peerings of this nature will occur 
frequently.

If you think the general criteria should be changed to "concrete 
intention to peer" then it would be a good idea to solicit and 
comment from others on this mailing list and/or raise it at the
forthcoming APNIC meeting. 

Related to this, I am not sure if you are aware, but there has been a 
proposal to extend the bootstrap phase - which was due to end after 
100 subTLA's had been allocated. THis is on the agenda of the forthcoming 
Address Policy/IPv6 joint SIG. You can find more details here of the 
actual proposal and request for comments :

http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/0107/msg00001.html 

If you would like to raise your question and the APNIC Address 
Policy/IPv6 joint SIG you would be very welcome to - just email
Jun Murai (the chair) at jun@nic.ad.jp and copy sig@apnic.net. 

I hope this helps

Best wishes,

Anne
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Anne Lord, Manager, Policy Liaison                  <anne@apnic.net>
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre       phone: +61 7 3367 0490
http://www.apnic.net                          fax:   +61 7 3367 0482
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> Yours sincerely,
> --
> Tomohiro Fujisaki
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