Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

Mon Oct 18 18:55:49 UTC 2010

On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:18 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
>> ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least down to /31).
> 
> Do they still do that?  Back when I was at IANA, one of the justifications the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was that they were going to be using the 'bisection' method of allocation which removes the need for reservation.  Last I heard, APNIC was using the bisection method...

ARIN is doing the same (the 'bisection' method) with our IPv6 management 
since January 2010: we refer to the "sparse allocation" approach and it 
was requested by the community during the ARIN/NANOG Dearborn meeting.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN