XS4ALL Introduces native IPv6 for DSL customers

[Gert Doering]

Hi Arno,

thanks for answering this - I planned to dig into the documents to 
see what the exact wording was but was away for two days.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:25:00AM -0400, Arno Meulenkamp wrote:
[..]
> > I don't see this in the policy. What's the deal with /56s then in the
> > policy?
> 
> They simply use /56 for the calculation of the HD ratio. If you assign 
> a /48, effectively, you've assigned 256 /56 blocks, as counting for 
> the HD ratio.

Very clear :-)

> > ==============================================================
> > 5.2.1. Subsequent allocation criteria
> > 
> > Subsequent allocation will be provided when an organisation (i.e.
> > ISP/LIR) satisfies the evaluation threshold of past address utilisation
> > in terms of the number of sites in units of /56 assignments. The
> > HD-Ratio [RFC 3194] is used to determine the utilisation thresholds that
> > justify the allocation of additional address as described below.
> 
> It might be good to rephrase the text to "Subsequent allocation will 
> be provided when an organisation (i.e. ISP/LIR) satisfies the evaluation 
> threshold of past address utilisation in terms of assigned address 
> space in units of /56 blocks."
> 
> That might bypass this confusion.

Yes, this sounds good.  I take this from there to APWG to discuss
and get the text clarified (most likely, run the change through the 
formal PD process, as it *is* a change to the policy documents...)

Gert Doering
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