Re: [OPSAWG] Heads up - Plea for allocating a /8 to ISPs

Chris Donley <C.Donley-AwJHAePZ/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.v6ops,gmane.ietf.ops
Message-ID <76AC5FEF83F1E64491446437EA81A61F7D20316286@srvxchg>
Not quite...a lot of address space that is justified under RIR allocation policies (est. 60 million addresses) would not be allocated for this purpose in the future.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lindqvist Kurt Erik
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:12 AM
To: Victor Kuarsingh
Cc: IPv6 Operations; james woodyatt; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] [v6ops] Heads up - Plea for allocating a /8 to ISPs

On 11 nov 2010, at 09.27, Victor Kuarsingh wrote:
> 
>>>> 
>>>> What advantage is there in directing *IANA* to do it?
>> 
>> I understand why you want to use a prefix not listed in RFC 1918.  I 
>> don't understand why getting it from IANA will be any better for you 
>> than if you get it from Joe's House Of IPv4 Addresses.
>> 
> The goal here was that in aggregate, the provides use less global 
> space for a common use. It is more efficient for providers to share a 
> block, then all go to the RIRs and ask for their own slice.

To make sure I understand this - then the opposite should also be true. That if a /10 is given for this, a lot of address space could be returned to the RIRs free pools?

Best regards,

- kurtis -




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