Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Randy Carpenter
John, Thank you very much. That clarification helps out quite a bit. -Randy -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President, IT Services | Red Hat Certified Engineer | First Network Group, Inc. | (419)739-9240, x1 - Original Message - > On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: >

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread John Curran
On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their nearest > neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close considering there is a > lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and there doesn't seem to be > consensus yet

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Generally the older allocations would be left in place until deprecated by attrition. At least that's what I plan to advocate in my policy proposal. Owen Sent from my iPad On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from th

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/18/10 12:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their > nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close > considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and > there doesn't seem to be consensus yet. > > For

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Randy Carpenter
I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and there doesn't seem to be consensus yet. For these customers, I don't think they will need more than

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread John Curran
Randy - We'll likely put that out to the ARIN community for consultation at the point in time when becomes a potential issue. I expect we will have plenty of time before that needs to be considered at the present rate of allocation. /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN On Oct 18,

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Randy Carpenter
John, Can you tell us at what degree the bisection stops? i.e. does it keep going until there are no spaces left, or will you leave some space in between each one to leave some room for future needs for orgs that already have allocations? -Randy -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President, IT Serv

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread John Curran
On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:18 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote: >> ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least down to /31). > > Do they still do that? Back when I was at IANA, one of the justifications > the RIRs gave for the /12s they received