[ppml] geo addressing

[Howard, W. Lee]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:03 AM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] geo addressing
> 
> > Would you propose allocating /x to regional IXen?
> > Of a certain size, or serving a certain (defined how?)
> > region?  In addition to or lieu of existing policy? 
> > IPv4 and/or/xor IPv6?
> 
> Reserve, not allocate. Someone still has to do the tough
> work of analyzing world populations and the limits to growth
> in order to come up with some measure of how much networking
> activity to expect in each part of the world. This analysis
> is needed to determine how big /x is for each city and how
> to aggregate cities into larger sub-continental aggregates.

Interesting.
 
> The addresses are then reserved in the same way that ARIN
> reserves neighboring blocks when they allocate a block to
> an ISP. At that point we will know exactly which /x belongs 
> to each city. But that doesn't mean that we allocate the
> addresses to exchanges in the city. The allocation may well
> go to ISPs based on their network infrastructure in and around
> a particular city. But in some cities, there will likely
> be a consortium of ISPs and exvchanges who will administer
> the allocations in the same way that APNIC NIRs administer
> allocations in some countries.

Okay, pretty clear answers.  Do I have it right that ARIN
would reserve, say, a /32 for NY, with a dotted line around
a map, then any ISP who applied for address space would get
an allocation from that /32?  ISPs would have to apply for
separate blocks in each gerrymander; local ISPs and IXen
would have portable blocks from their local /32?


 
> All of this is IPv6 because that is where th big block of
> unspecified address space exists. It does mean that in
> geotopological addressing we come back to the idea of
> allocating to ISPs only as many addresses as they can
> justify. No /32s. However, the /48 and /64 rules continue
> to apply because end-user networks are still the same.

Justify = 6-month projected host count?  10 year?



> 
> --Michael Dillon

Lee