Important information about the policy discussion issues
The current IPv6 policy document Provisional IPv6 Assignment and Allocation Policy has been under review since December 1999. Since then there has been extensive consultation with the membership of the three RIRs and the IETF community and substantial input has been received. No consensus has been reached however.
A list of outstanding issues is detailed below:
The size of end user assignments from the SLA ID (/48, /56 and /64)
There has been much discussion on this, in particular on the 'one size fits all' /48 minimum assignment, with alternatives being put forward ranging from 3 fixed assignments (above) to assigning "only according to need".
A paper IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 address allocations was subsequently released by the IPv6 Directorate clarifying the need for a /48 fixed assignment size.
Multi-homing - what should be written in the document
Section 4.2.3.2 on 'multihomed sites' is unwritten in the policy document. We are looking for feedback from the IETF.
What does 80% utilisation really mean?
Given the deeply hierarchical nature of IPv6, it is not clear what 80% utilisation means.
An overview of IPv6 was presented at the RIPE37 meeting in Amsterdam by Bob Hinden, Co-chair of the IETF IPng working group.
Similar presentations are being made at both the forthcoming ARIN and APNIC meetings by representatives of the IAB/IESG. APNIC is pleased to welcome Alain Durand, co chair IETF NGtrans working group to the Address policy SIG to present the IETF perspective.
