IPV6 renumbering painless?

Sun Nov 14 00:23:17 UTC 2004

On 13 Nov 2004, at 13:32, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

> Thus spake "Paul Vixie" <vixie at vix.com>
>
>>> 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.)
>
> 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.

The policies specify other requirements for subsequent address 
requests, and for organisations that need more than a /32 worth of 
addresses, but for people applying for their first block that paragraph 
sums it up (however, read the source documents at <http://www.arin.net> 
rather than taking my word for it).

I would expect ARIN staff to ensure that applications were reasonable, 
accurate and met the criteria set out in the policy before handing out 
any resources. ARIN staff have always been very rigourous in this 
regard whenever I have had occasion to send them a request.

Joe