Global IPv6 policy question

Kurt Erik Lindqvist kurtis at kurtis.pp.se
Tue Jul 25 08:16:22 CEST 2006


On 20 jul 2006, at 01.00, David Conrad wrote:

> Hi,
>
> IANA has been asked to provide input to ICANN's board on the RIR- 
> consensus global IPv6 allocation policy (see http://www.icann.org/ 
> announcements/announcement-14jul06.htm for details), so I'm looking  
> to understand what folks in the v6 operational community think.
>
> One question would be the choice of /12 as the minimum allocation  
> size for IANA to allocate IPv6 addresses to the RIRs.  Do folks  
> consider this
>
> a) just right
> b) too little
> c) too much
> d) why are you annoying me with this?
>
> Another question: does your answer change with changes to either a  
> more conservative HD ratio or a longer minimum end user prefix length?

I think this is a reasonable proposal and should be adopted.

- kurtis -


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