On 10 July 2015 at 13:30, John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org> wrote:
Baldur -
I am not aware of the RIPE practices with respect to IPv6 end-user assignments, but in the ARIN region, ISPs/LIR's make assignments to end users based on similar practices that the community adopted for ARIN’s end-user assignments. To my knowledge, ARIN does not review these ISP IPv6 end-user assignments (except after the fact and in aggregate if an ISP were to come to ARIN seeking an additional IPv6 block due to utilization of the previous.)
Differences in policies between the regions is not necessarily any indication of a “problem”; it can just as easily be an appropriate reflection of different underlying circumstances.
The RIPE policy https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-641 section 5.4.2 states: "When a single End Site requires an assignment shorter than a /48, it must request the assignment with documentation or materials that justify the request. Requests for multiple or additional prefixes exceeding a /48 assignment for a single End Site will be processed and reviewed (i.e., evaluation of justification) at the RIR/NIR level". For a business user we might go through that process. But my question is about ordinary residential end users where we want to have as little manual processing as possible. Therefore we read the above as "do not do that". We do not entirely disagree with the policy either. I am more looking for a technical solution, that allows us to deliver a /48 yet still be as flexible as possible to the users wants and needs. Regards, Baldur