Alan Barrett wrote: > It seems to me that the author's organisation could qualify as an LIR > and obtain an IPv6 /32 under existing policies.
How would the organisation do that? It is my understanding from discussions with Adiel that there is no framework for AfriNIC to recognize an NPO as a member of any type. I believe that ISPA-SA has also been struggling with this recently. > relevance of RFC1918 above -- presumably the organisation would wan tto > be properly conencted to the global Internet, not to use private address Using NAT and a small pool of public IPv4 space it is possible to connect to other networks using public IPs. In IPv6 land - ULA is seen by some as the equivalent to RFC1918 space. Since NAT does not exist for IPv6 the ULA space is largely unusable unless there are no plans to ever connect to other networks on the public IPv6 internet. > I also don't understand the relevance of the reference to IPv6 > PI policy in the proposal -- the organisations targeted by this proposal > are themselves providers who would qualify as LIRs; I think it is critical to point out some aspects of the organisation's structure that may or may not apply to other NPOs: The organisation is NOT a provider. The way that we make this distinction is the fact that the oganisation does not purchase any transit from any provider. Any access to external networks would be obtained exclusively through zero settlement peering. This means that we have no 'upstream provider' from which we can obtain IP space. It also means that we have no end-users - since we cannot provide a transit service downstream. Any user that required IPv6 internet access would be getting it from a different provider. I also don't see a reason to waste an entire /32 on us when are managing quite comfortably within an unroutable /48 right now. ;-) -- Graham Beneke Apolix Internet Services E-Mail/MSN/Jabber: [email protected] Skype: grbeneke VoIP: 087-750-5696 Cell: 082-432-1873 http://www.apolix.co.za/ _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
