Re: [sig-policy] Pro-100:National IP Address Plan - Allocation of countr
> trade them in and renumber into one block for the enterprise. if they
> are singly homed, that would be part of their provider's block.
>
> and do not whine about the renumbering, as your national block insanity
> would require the same.
>
> randy
Randy:
You are correct by saying that what you call "national block insanity"
would require address renumbering at this stage. However most of the ISPs
in India have very recently started launching IPv6 services. Many of them
are still at the planning stage. At this stage renumbering is very easy.
However, if they if they don't plan it correctly, it will be very
difficult for them to do it in foreseeable future.
Many ISPs in India have got more than 100 million customers and the number
is growing at a very fast rate. Currently their IPv6 allocation is /32 or
at most /30. As they grow, their address requirement may reach upto /20 or
even more.
The argument put forth by many that they can take larger v6 blocks from
APNIC right away is right. However the only issue is that it would cost
them more ( a /20 block would cost them 20 times more than /32 block) and
even if the ISPs are willing to bear this cost, they do not know how much
they will grow in future and what will be their address requirement in the
long term. So at some stage they may need more v6 address blocks which may
not be contiguous.
Now the pertinent question is, how will the Prop-100 solve this issue.
Although I am not the spokesperson for Prop-100, but what I understand
from the proposal is that if the address allocation is done by the NIR
from a contiguous block (like /16) allocated to it (or at-least the NIR
controls the address allocation), then the NIR can assign a small block
like /32 or /30 to the ISPs to start their IPv6 roll-out, but reserve
larger contiguous address space for them which can be allocated to them at
later stages. As I understand, this may not be possible if the address
allocation is done directly by APNIC.
India has a very large population and it is the fastest growing economy of
the world. I think Prop-100 is trying to put forth practical issues which
Indian community foresees and it should be debated with positive attitude
rather than calling it a "national block insanity".
Bye,
Er. Navpreet Singh (FIETE)
Principal Computer Engineer
Computer Centre
IIT Kanpur- 208016.
Ph: 0512-259-7371
Email: navi at iitk dot ac dot in
Web: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~navi
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