Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

["Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Jan 1, 2008 12:46 PM, James Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:

> The place where major problems could be run into is deciding how big a
> block your ISPs and
> LIRs get, or if the registries are entertaining the concept of  PI
> space for v6.. how large

too late NRO policy comparison chart:

http://www.nro.net/documents/nro45.html#3-4-3

Specifically APNIC and ARIN have /48 end-user assignments (PI)
policies in place, RIPE is still discussing this policy as of the last
meeting (if I recall correctly).


> those blocks are.  Does a small ISP ever get such a small block that
> they may run out of /48s
> to assign?

Sure, if they mis-plan or over-sell or acquire a competitor... there
are many scenarios that could include this sort of event.

> Does a large ISP ever get such a large block, the RIRs may run out of
> ISP blocks to assign?

At one point DISA/DoD was looking to get a /10 from <SOME RIR> ... I
don't that went anywhere, or is still under discussion. That'd
certainly make a dent in the available space though, eh?

> to networks, which is very bad:  design of IPv6 is supposed to avoid
> such things.

The initial design requirements/assumptions you mean, most of which
don't apply to today's world?

> In the latter case... IPv6  IP addresses have not been 'exhausted',
> but now, there can now
> be no new ISPs or PI allocations;  everything having been assigned to
> some major provider
> who has not given out very many of their /48s  yet,
>
> or who is giving out /56s  and hording the rest of the address space,
> never to be assigned.....

ah, just like in ipv4 come mid-2010 ? wither ipv8?

-Chris