ISP DHCPv6 and /48

Sat Jul 11 10:12:00 UTC 2015

On 10 July 2015 at 13:30, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:

> Baldur -
>
>     I am not aware of the RIPE practices with respect to IPv6 end-user
> assignments,
>     but in the ARIN region, ISPs/LIR's make assignments to end users based
> on similar
>     practices that the community adopted for ARIN’s end-user assignments.
>   To my
>     knowledge, ARIN does not review these ISP IPv6 end-user assignments
> (except
>     after the fact and in aggregate if an ISP were to come to ARIN seeking
> an additional
>     IPv6 block due to utilization of the previous.)
>
>     Differences in policies between the regions is not necessarily any
> indication of a
>     “problem”; it can just as easily be an appropriate reflection of
> different underlying
>     circumstances.
>
>

The RIPE policy https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-641 section
5.4.2 states:

"When a single End Site requires an assignment shorter than a /48, it must
request the assignment with documentation or materials that justify the
request. Requests for multiple or additional prefixes exceeding a /48
assignment for a single End Site will be processed and reviewed (i.e.,
evaluation of justification) at the RIR/NIR level".

For a business user we might go through that process. But my question is
about ordinary residential end users where we want to have as little manual
processing as possible. Therefore we read the above as "do not do that".

We do not entirely disagree with the policy either. I am more looking for a
technical solution, that allows us to deliver a /48 yet still be as
flexible as possible to the users wants and needs.

Regards,

Baldur