[SANOG] [apnic-talk]Reg - IPV6 allocation method changes from block based to delegations based for NIR

[David Conrad]

Gaurav,

On Dec 20, 2021, at 9:56 PM, Gaurav Kansal <gaurav.kansal at nic.in> wrote:
> A big block to NIR can help in super netting the v6 announcement at NIR (or at country level) , which can help in reducing the routing table size in long terms

How would this work exactly, given Internet connectivity and routing aggregation is provider-based and does not necessarily follow geopolitical boundaries?

> AND can also have IPv6 allocations in consecutive order for the economies where we have NIRs.

Why would this be helpful?

> APNIC still allots ASN block to NIRs for further allocation to NIR members.

ASNs are merely tags associated with a bunch of prefixes that have (in theory) a unique routing policy.  As such, there isn’t much need to create aggregates, so how they are allocated doesn’t really matter.

Regards,
-drc

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