IPV6 renumbering painless?

Fri Nov 12 08:27:14 UTC 2004

On 12-nov-04, at 5:03, Paul Vixie wrote:

>> There is currently no PI in IPv6 unless you're an internet exchange or
>> a root server.

> ...but i really do think of 2001:4f8::/32 as PI, even though ISC is 
> neither
> an IX nor a rootserver.  (f-root has its own /48, which is something 
> else.)

ARIN says:

NetRange:   2001:04F8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 - 
2001:04F8:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:F
FFF:FFFF:FFFF
CIDR:       2001:04F8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000/32
[...]
NetType:    Direct Allocation

I don't exactly know what this means, but something called "allocation" 
that's bigger than what a single organization could possibly need for 
its own use doesn't smell like PI to me.