Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Mon Oct 18 20:54:37 UTC 2010
Generally the older allocations would be left in place until deprecated by attrition.
At least that's what I plan to advocate in my policy proposal.
Owen
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On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen at network1.net> wrote:
>
> I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and there doesn't seem to be consensus yet.
>
> For these customers, I don't think they will need more than a /29, but if we collectively decide that a /28 is the next step from a /32, how will the older allocations be dealt with? This is pretty much a rhetorical question at this point, and I suppose the proper thing to do is to channel these questions toward the PPML for discussion as potential policy.
>
> thanks,
> -Randy
>
> --
> | Randy Carpenter
> | Vice President, IT Services
> | Red Hat Certified Engineer
> | First Network Group, Inc.
> | (419)739-9240, x1
> ----
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Randy -
>>
>> We'll likely put that out to the ARIN community for consultation
>> at the point in time when becomes a potential issue. I expect we
>> will have plenty of time before that needs to be considered at the
>> present rate of allocation.
>>
>> /John
>>
>> John Curran
>> President and CEO
>> ARIN
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> Can you tell us at what degree the bisection stops? i.e. does it
>>> keep going until there are no spaces left, or will you leave some
>>> space in between each one to leave some room for future needs for
>>> orgs that already have allocations?
>>>
>>>
>>> -Randy
>>>
>>> --
>>> | Randy Carpenter
>>> | Vice President, IT Services
>>> | Red Hat Certified Engineer
>>> | First Network Group, Inc.
>>> | (419)739-9240, x1
>>> ----
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> 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
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