Re: [sig-policy] IPv6 proposals summary and call for discussion
thing. Our current view of network size is still influenced strongly by
an IPv4 of the world and we see a /32 as so huge that for most entities
they'll never need anything else. And to a large degree that's true.
But there are situations where people will need more than one /32 and
that should be possible. So I'd like to see us come up with a policy
that made it clear that larger or multiple delegations of address space
can be made for clear, well documented, technically sound reasons.
We could then have the cases that these two proposals cite listed in an
Appendix to the policy. New valid reasons could be added if/when needed.
The policy should enshrine the principles only.
So if we could come up with a way to unify these proposals I'd be happy
to support that but I won't reject these if we can't manage that.
Looking at prop-090 I have no issue with the change in calculation. I
don't believe there's a "correct solution" to this. I note that the
percentages quoted in Section 2.1 and Section 5 don't agree with each
other but if either of the sets of numbers is in the right ball park
then it doesn't matter.
I like the idea of the nibble alignment in Section 4.3.
I'm less keen on the allocation criteria in Section 4.5. Sections 4.5.2
and 4.5.3 as written prevent any new organisation who isn't an ISP from
obtaining IPv6 address space for their own use.
So a new university, government department or company who may have many
hundreds or thousands of users can't multihome using IPv6 because they
don't plan to give out address space to other organisations?
We had criteria like these in place for IPv4 because we've recognised
for many years it was a scarce resource and people have fabricated
requests to the RIRs to justify their wants. Let's have delegation
criteria but not these ones.
I'm also doubtful about Section 4.8. Any policy that says a recipient
needs to renumber within 5 years will never work in practice. What
happens if they don't renumber? What sanctions will APNIC be able to apply?