Re: [sig-policy] prop-057-v001: Proposal to change IPv6 initial allocation criteria

[Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>]

On 31/01/2008 10:41, "Philip Smith" <pfs@cisco.com> wrote:

[...]

> How about simply making the IPv6 allocation minimum requirements mirror
> those for IPv4?

[...]

>  From http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy.html, an IPv4
> allocation of a /21 is made if the LIR can justify a /23 now (section
> 9.3), and can demonstrate a plan to use a /22 in a year.
>
> If we translate that into IPv6 equivalents, that would be "justify a /30
> now, and demonstrate a plan to use a /31 in a year to get a /32" - which
> is considerably more than the 200 (which is not even a /40) in the
> existing IPv6 policy. Do we want to go here? 200 sounds a lot easier to
> me! ;-)

You can mirror the concept without mirroring the details. For instance, you
could introduce a system that guarantees everyone as much space as they can
demonstrate they need. When an APNIC member demonstrates a need for x /48s
the would be allocated a block that meets those needs. This could be done
based on an HD-ratio measurement or some other 'fair scale'.

As APNIC use a sparse allocation model there would be a very good chance
that a future allocation would be contiguous with the first allocation.

Regards,

Leo