[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 Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:07:25AM +0200, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:41:47PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> Should'nt this be a matter of the RIRs, instead of IANA/ICANN?

"this" being "what"?

The allocation to the LIR is made by the RIRs, of course, but if the
RIR only has a /23 (not /21, that was a typo) for itself, and LIRs 
are granted a /22, the corresponding RIR needs space from ICANN/IANA...

This has happened a number of times already in the past (Telia and C&W
allocations, for example), and clearly demonstrates that "/23s from ICANN
to RIR" doesn't work.

Gert Doering
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