Hi Thomas, Actually there are two reasons behind this comment.
One is that the draft provides some argumentation on why allocating /64 prefixes is not a risk for the address space and that's fine, but another question that I hear quite often is whether Internet registries will accept to give out huge blocks of addresses to each and every cellular operator. Therefore some hints that this is not an issue either would be valuable. The other reason is that no action will be undertaken by 3GPP to ensure appropriate allocation policies until the /64 allocation principle is formally approved by 3GPP, but the decision to approve it or not will only be taken once the draft has become a WG document and the discussions will then mostly be based on this draft. Therefore, to reassure those who are afraid that 3G operators might have difficulties getting the necessary address space, some pointers to documents like e.g. RFC 3177 would be helpful when we come to deciding on this matter in 3GPP. Perhaps the comment was not so clear in that it is not really "how" an operator can request address space which matters here, but rather "what kind of" address blocks an operator will need and highlight that it won't be a problem to get it. BR, Juan Thomas Narten wrote: > > > General comments: > > ---------------- > > > 1) It would be useful to include some description/guidelines about how > > IPv6 address blocks should be allocated to 3G mobile operators (i.e. > > what size, possibility to get additional address blocks if needed and > > how, etc.), in particular considering that in some countries operators > > with more than 100 millions subscribers, possibly using multiple > > "primary" PDP contexts, are foreseeable. > > It is probably not IPng's task to define these policies, however some > > hints or references to other RFCs might reveal useful for telecom > > operators that do not necessarily read all these RFCs. > > My initial reaction is that this may well not be this WG's job. Could > you clarify a bit in terms of what you want advice on? > > Note that you should in any case be also having discussions with the > appropriate Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) (i.e., ARIN, APNIC, or > RIPE). They may well be able to give you the info you are looking for > as they have policies in place that describe the procedures for > obtaining IPv6 address space. Consult their web pages for more info > and specifics. > > Finally, note that the RIR IPv6 policy is currently under revision, so > now would be a particularly good time to discuss with the RIRs any > issues you might have, in case they need to be considered in the > updated IPv6 policy. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
