Hi Hytham,
Thanks for your comment/input.
On Mar 13, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Hytham EL Nakhal wrote:
Dear Vincent,
I'd like to discuss something may be get benefits of all
suggestions regarding PI assignment, What about dedicating a /32
for PI assignments, and each PI is /48 , so we have 2 to the power
16 PI assignments (i.e. 65536 /48 PI blocks). AfriNIC provide
services for Africa Continent which contains about 55 countries. So
if we divide PI blocks equally over countries we find that each
country will have more than 1190 PI blocks, "Is it enough for each
country" ? to know the answer we can have a look on the number of
IPv4 PI assignments for each country in database (keeping in mind
that /48 IPv6 block has addresses more more than /24 IPv4).
Then we can make all /48 PI assignments from a dedicated /32 block
and in same time we can arrange for a serial /48 blocks for each
country and inside each country we can keep a guard band for each
PI assignment in case of future growth.
This is a very nice suggestion.
(a) IMHO, though a /32 is not as large a space as the numbers may
insinuate, with proper usage of assigned /48 prefixes, we can greatly
minimise the need for preserving a /32 for every /48 assigned.
(b) On the other hand, we need to consider the needs/demand for IP
from the different countries in the AfriNIC region; it's not
proportionate.
(c) It's however worth noting that end-users with a high demand (>> /
48) for v6 space can always become an LIR or acquire the same from an
LIR. Let's not forget that the primary objective of this policy is to
provide PI v6 for critical infrastructure providers.
Let's see what others have to say about this.
-v
Thanks,
Haitham..
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Sent: Tue 3/13/2007 3:51 PM
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Subject: [AfriNIC-rpd] Re: [resource-policy] AfriNIC Policy
Proposal: IPv6ProviderIndependent (PI) Assignment for End-Sites
Hi All,
Below is a summary of the above policy as per the discussions we
have had so far.
So far, we have the following arguments:
(a) Andrew Levin (30.01.2007)
proposed that we should not assign prefixes < /48 due to concerns
about the global routing table
(b) Frank Habitcht (30.01.2007)
was in agreement that there was need for PI assignments < /48
especially in the case of IXP's since the prefix would not appear
in the global routing table.
(c) Mark Elkins (01.02.2007)
Suggested that each /48 assignment should be made from a unique /32
(which should be preserved to accommodate growth)
From the above points:
(b) above seems to have outweighed (a) above and as such we should
allow for the assignment prefixes < /48 as per the draft.
as for (c) above, organisations which require >= /32 should become
an LIR.
In conclusion, it seems that the draft policy should remain as it is.
Currently statistics:
* Yea (those in support of the policy) : 6
* Nay (those _not in support of the policy) : 1
Finally, I wish to encourage more members of the community to give
their views on this policy, or at least indicate whether they are
in favour of it or not.
Abuja is only 5 weeks away!
-v
On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Andrew Alston wrote:
Hi Vincent,
I'm ok with all of this except for the following:
* The intial provider independent assignment size to an end-site
should be a /48, or a shorter/longer prefix if the end-site can
justify it.
I'm happy with /48s, I'm even happier with bigger blocks, but
there should *NEVER* be a situation where the block is smaller than
this in the global routing tables. If the blocks can ever be
smaller than /48 in size it is going to create major BGP filtering
headaches.
Can this wording be clarified?
Many Thanks
Andrew Alston
TENET - Chief Technology Officer
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