[alac] Proposed policy for IPv6 address allocation
The Address Council has transmitted to the Board a proposal for IPv6 address allocation. According to the Bylaws, the Board has 60 days to accept/reject/modify the proposal. If no action is taken, the policy is adopted by default (I like that approach!). The Board will most probably have a special meeting dedicated to this issue in the first week in September. Should we have any comments to this, from the end user point of view, this is the moment to raise them. Bear in mind, however, that this policy is only related to the allocation of address space from IANA to the RIRs, not to the downstream allocation to the end users. For your information, the tendency, still under debate, is to allocate /48 blocks to end user sites. The choice is the result of the balance between opposed constraints: if the blocks are too large, the address space might be used up too quickly; if the blocks are too small, fragmentation will increase. As of today, it is believed that a /48 block will be sufficient for all type of end users, i.e. that the probability of having to allocate in the future another /48 block (which will be not adjacent to the previous one) to the same user is negligeable. Cheers, Roberto Gaetano ALAC ICANN Board Liaison Attachment:
Proposed IPv6 Global Policy.pdf Attachment:
Global Policy Memo of Transmittal.pdf |