[apnic-talk] Re: FW: Comments on Policies for Address Space Management i
Dear B.R.Khurana and D.P.De,
Many thanks for your comments and review of this document.
I have made a few comments in the body of your email, which
I hope will be useful. Please see below for details.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B.R.Khurana [mailto:khurana at del2.vsnl dot net dot in]
> Sent: Monday, 15 February 1999 16:01
> To: apnic-talk at apnic dot net
> Cc: pwilson at apnic dot net
> Subject: Comments on Policies for Address Space Management in Asia
> Pacific Region.
>
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> Sub: Comments on draft document ` Policies for Address Space
> Management
> in Asia pacific Region'
>
> Ref: APNIC Account Name : DOT-IN
>
>
> The Department of Telecommunications, a Government of India
> Organisation is a large registry memeber of APNIC. On the draft
> "Policies for Address Space management in Asia Pacific Region " this
> Department wishes to offer the following comments:
>
> Section 6.9 and 7.6:
> --------------------
>
> India is a very large country. As the Department of
> Telecommunication is the organisation which builds and maintains the
> entire infrastucture for the telecommunication requirements of the
> country , hence such a large country needs higher initial
> allocation/reservations of Address Space. An initial allocation of /19
> will cause a large number of routing tables to be introduced at a later
> date in the routers.
An explicit goal of APNIC policy is to promote aggregation. Whilst not
guaranteeing that subsequent allocations will be contiguous, we make
every effort to ensure that this happens, so that the allocations can
be combined to form one aggregate announcement.
While it is APNIC policy to allocate an intial /19, the size of
subsequent allocations will depend on actual address space usage.
If the initial allocation is consumed quickly, then subsequent
allocations will be larger according to the rate of use and
providing that address space management policies and procedures have
been correctly followed.
> Section 6.1 and 7.19
> --------------------
>
> This section does not recognise the sale or unauthorised transfer of
> Address Space while at the same time wants those seeking Address Space
> (say Private ISPs) to request from upstream providers rather than from
> APNIC directly. However, the upstream provider spends a large sum of
> money in becoming member of APNIC/maintaining IP data base etc, so
> naturally he will seek monetary remuneration.
When an IR is allocated address space, it is expressly authorised to
make assignments in accordance with the policies laid out in
this document. Therefore, this section, which deals with unauthorised
transfers, does not apply in the context you describe.
> Comments on ipv6 (128 bit Address)
> -------------------------------------
>
> The availability of ipv6 is from the end of March 99 as per the
> e-mail received . This should ease all our burdens and also that of
> APNIC as sufficiently large chunk of IP Addresses will then be
> available. The formulation and need for the Policy document and giving
> only a /19 initially in the light of ipv6 is not clearly understood.
> will all allocations after March 99 be in IPv4 or IPv6 or both will run
> concurrently.
>
This document relates only to the distribution of IPv4 address space.
There is a draft document referring to the distribution of IPv6 address
space which you can find at :
http://www.apnic.net/ipv6draft.html
In answer to your question, it is anticipated that, IPv4 allocations will
continue for a long time into the future.
Best wishes,
Anne Lord
APNIC
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