On 25-nov-04, at 10:27, Jeroen Massar wrote:
200 locations doesn't seem that off to me..
That is exactly the right way to count ;)
Which kind of makes the point, that they deserve the /32
Well, apparently RIPE thinks they do, so there must be some piece of information that I'm not privvy to. However, in the absense of that particular piece of information, I have a hard time seeing how the BBC qualifies for a /32. Last time I checked, they weren't an ISP. 200 sites doesn't qualify you for a /32: it qualifies you for a /48 (jusst like one site does). That's 65536 subnets = ~300 subnets per site. If that's not enough, perhaps a /47 or /46 is in order, or maybe, just maybe a /40 = a /48 per site. But a /32 is ridiculous: this allows for 4 billion subnets (20 million per site). Here is a quote from the "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy" (http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ipv6-allocation-policy-26jun02 ): 5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an organization must: a) be an LIR; b) not be an end site; c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it will assign /48s, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation; and d) have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organizations within two years.