# Mail Subject changed to "The initial allocation criteria"
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- Should the initial allocation criteria be changed with this policy to
200 customers, instead of /48s?
(have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other
organizations within two years."
This could be a logically consistent change, in that it appears that the
intent of the Ipv6 allocation policy is to allow IPv6 resource
allocations to be available to service providers with customers.
Thanks. Yes, it seems to me that /48 has lost its original context now
that ISPs can assign any size to its customers.
This, my understand, is not influencing to the initial allocation
criteria of having a plan of service size at least 200 /48s assignments
to other organizations (maybe 200 "customers" when assigning a /48 each)
within two years.
And also, the original policy does mention that it is on the LIRs
decision which size of address space up to a /48 to their customers.
RIR/NIR will not give any comment on it unless LIR need to assign
the larger size than a /48 to a customer.
From the beginning, the assignment size is flexible between /48 to /64.
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Thanks for the clarification Kosuke-san. Understood that the policy had
been flexible about the assignment size from when it was first adopoted.
Either way, the current initial allocation criteria is tough for ISPs
that chose to assign, say, /56 to a single customer(they must have a
plan for 51,200*/56 assignments). It's even tougher if they assign /64s.
If we wish to give choices to ISPs about the assignment size, I think we
should make conditions equal for all sizes at the initial allocation as
well.
Izumi
