Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)

[Jason Slagle <raistlin () tacorp net>]

Sorry for the first post david.  Hit the wrong key.

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, David R. Conrad wrote:

> > With 15 POPs spread throughout the US and Europe, and
> > more on the way, with exceedingly non-contiguous space obtained from 6
> > different upstreams, it would benefit ourselves as well as our many
> > providers to have our own PI space.
>
> I suspect the number of organizations who can claim "it would benefit
> ourselves as well as our many providers" will greatly exceed the number
> of available routing slots before IPv6 comes anywhere close to being
> significantly deployed.

> From everything I've read, an originization cannot announce another
originizations address blocks to anyone else under ipv6.  It's
forbidden.  This would make getting a top level block a REQUIREMENT to
multihome unless you took multiple blocks from multiple providers, but
that gets messy.

Jason