RE: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

["Richard Jimmerson" <richardj () arin net>]

Most of the existing IPv6 policy set went into effect August 1, 2002, in the
ARIN region.  The provisional IPv6 policy set in place before that did not
exclude end-sites from obtaining IPv6 address space from ARIN.

Richard Jimmerson
Director of External Relations
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On 
> Behalf Of Pekka Savola
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:31 AM
> To: Joe Abley
> Cc: Stephen Sprunk; Paul Vixie; North American Noise and 
> Off-topic Gripes
> Subject: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]
>
>
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Joe Abley wrote:
> > > So you're claiming that any IPv6 PI applicant without your 
> political 
> > > connections to the IESG, ARIN, IANA, etc. can get a /32?  I don't 
> > > know exactly how many subnets/hosts ISC has, but I seriously doubt 
> > > ISC could even get a PI /48 if you weren't buddies with the folks 
> > > making allocation decisions.
> >
> > Nobody is required to count hosts or subnets in order to justify a 
> > request for PI v6 space from an RIR. All an applicant needs 
> to do is 
> > meet the criteria laid out in the policies, and addresses 
> are assigned or allocated.
> > Anybody who wants to examine the real policies should go 
> and look at 
> > the source documents at ARIN, but to paraphrase them here, an 
> > applicant who operates an exchange point, or operates critical 
> > Internet infrastructure can obtain a PI /48 assignment from 
> ARIN for 
> > that purpose; an applicant who has a plan to assign PA addresses to 
> > 200 other organisations within 2 years can get a /32 to 
> make the assignments from.
>
> Actually, the policy also specifies that you must not be an end-site.
>
> I'd be particularly interested in knowing what ISC said who 
> would be their 200 other organizations who they intended to 
> allocate the address space (their employees?), and how ISC 
> would not be an end-site.
>
> This is a more generic issue, of course.
>
> -- 
> Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
> Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
> Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings