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Re: RIR bashing, was: Routing table size?

On zondag, okt 12, 2003, at 15:00 Europe/Amsterdam, masataka ohta wrote:

Giving out /32s ONLY in IPv6 and /20s mostly in IPv4 isn't a good policy. Sometimes people need to be globally visible without the need for such a large block, and the largest ISPs burn through them fast enough to warrant giving them much larger blocks.

Large? How large?

Double the size of each next block? Probably want to stop doing that at some point, though...

The only real requirement is global visibility and, with IPv4 today,
it is granted to an ISP with multiple external connectivities, which
is not necessarily the case with multi6.

Actually it doesn't work like that in IPv4 either. You can get an AS number if you multihome, but for your own address block you need to show immediate use for a /22 (in the RIPE region).

As for the IPv6 routing table: yes, of course it is small. IPv6 deployment is small. The Empire State Building was small too the first week of construction.

It seems reasonable that everyone with an AS number will want to have an IPv6 address block at some point. That's nearly 30k at this moment.