Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

Tue Nov 9 12:51:50 UTC 2004

* hank at mail.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher) [Tue 09 Nov 2004, 09:18 CET]:
> I think you need to look at one of the authors - Nokia.  Perhaps 
> 2001:490::/32 and 3FFE:8130::/28 are not enough for what they have in 
> mind.  Perhaps someone from RIPE should sit down with Nokia (and
> perhaps all the other cell makers) and find out what they truly want
> and why these IETF drafts solve their problem.  Perhaps just giving
> them what they want (and think they will need) will make this all go
> away?

I remember a RIPE meeting a few years ago where a BT Cellnet
representative seriously asked to become an RIR with an initial /8
allocation for use among mobile operators.  If I recall correctly, he
was quietly laughed out of the room - and rightly so (as existing RIRs
are more than capable of handling any address request they might have).

I'm pretty sure Nokia, not being a network operator, has little use
for large amounts of address space.

For a mobile operator, I assume a standard allocation should be enough;
and if not I'm sure the RIR community is reasonable enough to listen to
the mobile operator's arguments.

	-- Niels.