[arin-ppml] A modest proposal for IPv6 address allocations

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Wed Jun 3 17:06:16 EDT 2009


On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Leo Vegoda wrote:

> On 01/06/2009 12:58, "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> If/when ARIN's  allocations of V6 space ever becomes so dense  that
>>> reserving the entire  /24  in advance  for recipients of /48s is no
>>> longer feasible,    it  should be the oldest-assigned  /48   that  
>>> are
>>> first "blocked" from expanding contiguously to a /24,  followed by  
>>> the
>>> oldest  /32 allocations.
>>>
>> This strategy presumes that ARIN is dividing the entire IPv6 address
>> space
>> and not receiving things in /24 chunks from IANA.
>
> ARIN won't get anything longer than a /12 from IANA until y'all  
> change the
> policy to allow that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo Vegoda

Yes... /12... /24 was a typo.

Owen




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