On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:51 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
At 09:43 AM 09-11-04 +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
Perhaps someone from RIPE should sit down with Nokia (and perhaps=20 all the other cell makers) and find out what they truly want and why thes= e=20 IETF drafts solve their problem. Perhaps just giving them what they want= =20 (and think they will need) will make this all go away?
Nokia makes Cellphones, but doesn't provide connectivity (afaik). Telia, the /20 above, does provide connectivity and they got, for them, enough space. If someone needs the space then just describe your problem to one of the RIR's and ask for the allocation. It can be done.
Perhaps Nokia wants to make cellphones with a fixed IPv6 number - as it leaves the factory? -Hank
I have not seen any plans/deployment of Nokia having a globally covering cellphone network. Also I don't think that any telco would like that a cellphone maker suddenly is taking over their business, could be but nah I don't think so. If you really want to know why they need the prefix, why don't you just ask them. David Kessens is probably the person who you want to talk to, with him doing doing a lot of 6bone work and of course the RIPE IPv6 wg and a lot of IETF stuff... Greets, Jereon