[arin-discuss] IPv6 Provider Woes

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> This is not to bash Verizon (specifically) but to point out 
> that there is a significant disconnect between the 
> marketplace and the RIR's already developing. 

This is nothing new. It is something that Verizon customers
should take up with their account managers, or switch to 
a Verizon competitor who doesn't have silly rules.

> is Verizon off their nut?

Exactly. Verizon is a big complex (read confusing) company
which means that the right hands rarely know or care what
the left hands are doing.

ARIN can't do anything about this directly.

Remember, the /32 prefix is supposed to go to the operator of
a single network. It may be that the Verizon customer actually
operates multiple networks and should therefore have multiple
/32s. Or maybe it's just one of those startup hiccups caused 
by the fact that nobody really knows how to do IPv6 Internet
routing yet, because nobody has much experience with it. There
are certainly a few people with some experience who have strong
opinions, but a consensus has yet to form. I suggest that the
whole transit-free tier 1 national network provider model of
IPv4 may not be the best one to follow for IPv6. It may make
more sense to put services like Google at the core of the
network, i.e. tier 1, rather than national networks.

--Michael Dillon