[Fwd: New IPv6 allocations from IANA to RIPE NCC (2a00::/21) and ARIN (2600::/22, 2604::/22, 2608::/22, 260c::/22)]

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> From: Doug Barton <barton at iana.org>
> To: doug.barton at icann.org
> 
> 
> And, the IANA has allocated the following four (4)
> IPv6 /22 blocks to ARIN:
> 
> 2600:0000::/22        ARIN
> 2604:0000::/22        ARIN
> 2608:0000::/22        ARIN
> 260C:0000::/22        ARIN

Does anyone know what they are smoking?

<politically correct>
What is happening here?  How do these allocations ICANN->ARIN come
to be?  Why are they allocating /22s at /14 (!) boundaries?

This sort of looks like "ICANN is sticking to the classic /21 allocations,
but four BIG requests have been made, been granted a /22, and ICANN is
trying to reserve room for growth".
</politically correct>

Gert Doering
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