Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Generally the older allocations would be left in place until deprecated by attrition.

At least that's what I plan to advocate in my policy proposal.

Owen


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On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net> wrote:

> I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a 
> little close considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and there doesn't seem to be consensus 
> yet.
>
> For these customers, I don't think they will need more than a /29, but if we collectively decide that a /28 is the 
> next step from a /32, how will the older allocations be dealt with?  This is pretty much a rhetorical question at 
> this point, and I suppose the proper thing to do is to channel these questions toward the PPML for discussion as 
> potential policy.
>
> thanks,
> -Randy
>
> --
> | Randy Carpenter
> | Vice President, IT Services
> | Red Hat Certified Engineer
> | First Network Group, Inc.
> | (419)739-9240, x1
> ----
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Randy -
> >
> > We'll likely put that out to the ARIN community for consultation
> > at the point in time when becomes a potential issue. I expect we
> > will have plenty of time before that needs to be considered at the
> > present rate of allocation.
> >
> > /John
> >
> > John Curran
> > President and CEO
> > ARIN
> >
> > On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > > John,
> > >
> > > Can you tell us at what degree the bisection stops? i.e. does it
> > > keep going until there are no spaces left, or will you leave some
> > > space in between each one to leave some room for future needs for
> > > orgs that already have allocations?
> > >
> > >
> > > -Randy
> > >
> > > --
> > > | Randy Carpenter
> > > | Vice President, IT Services
> > > | Red Hat Certified Engineer
> > > | First Network Group, Inc.
> > > | (419)739-9240, x1
> > > ----
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:18 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> > > > > On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
> > > > > > ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least down
> > > > > > to
> > > > > > /31).
> > > > >
> > > > > Do they still do that? Back when I was at IANA, one of the
> > > > > justifications the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was that
> > > > > they were going to be using the 'bisection' method of allocation
> > > > > which removes the need for reservation. Last I heard, APNIC was
> > > > > using the bisection method...
> > > >
> > > > ARIN is doing the same (the 'bisection' method) with our IPv6
> > > > management
> > > > since January 2010: we refer to the "sparse allocation" approach
> > > > and
> > > > it
> > > > was requested by the community during the ARIN/NANOG Dearborn
> > > > meeting.
> > > >
> > > > FYI,
> > > > /John
> > > >
> > > > John Curran
> > > > President and CEO
> > > > ARIN