On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:24:25PM -0400, Nils Ketelsen wrote:

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:58:03AM -0700, Philip Lavine wrote:

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Does anyone know the best way to get a IPV6 address block from ARIN. How can I assure that ARIN will honor my request?

http://www.arin.net/policy/ipv6_policy.html

If you are not a LIR (and do not plan to become one): Do not even bother trying. PI-Address space does not exist. Multihoming for non-LIRs is still an open issue.

Nils

last I checked, LIR was a RIPE-specific construct... --bill

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:35:01PM +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

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http://www.arin.net/policy/ipv6_policy.html If you are not a LIR (and do not plan to become one): Do not even bother trying. PI-Address space does not exist. Multihoming for non-LIRs is still an open issue.

last I checked, LIR was a RIPE-specific construct...

Then, for IPv6 assignments, you might want to check again.

From above mentioned Link:

---snip--- 2.4. Local Internet Registry (LIR) A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is an IR that primarily assigns address space to the users of the network services that it provides. LIRs are generally ISPs, whose customers are primarily end users and possibly other ISPs. ---snap--- And that is the policy ARIN claims to be using. IANA gives netblocks to RIRs, RIRs give netblocks to LIRs (or NIRs, who then assign netblocks to LIRs), LIRs give netblocks to Endusers. If an enduser changes his provider (and LIR) he renumbers. Nils