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

[Guangliang Pan]

Thanks David for your explanation.
 
To clarify, APNIC has never given NIRs large IPv6 blocks for sub-delegations; APNIC has always used direct delegation methods for IPv6 delegations to NIR Members. All IPv6 delegations to organizations under NIRs are directly from the APNIC pool, which give them the same position as APNIC direct Members in the IPv6 pool, to allow further growth.  
 
The change from the previous NIR block-based process to direct delegation methods happened in 2004 and was for IPv4 only. The purpose of the change was for better aggregation, as APNIC has bigger pool than NIRs. 
 
It looks like there are some confusion and APNIC will update the APNIC Blog to make it clearer.
 
Kind regards,
Guangliang
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 22 December 2021 3:07 AM
To: Gaurav Kansal <gaurav.kansal at nic.in>
Cc: RT_helpdesk <helpdesk at apnic.net>; Mailman_innog <innog at innog.net>; sanog at sanog.org; apnic-talk at lists.apnic.net
Subject: [apnic-talk]Re: Reg - IPV6 allocation method changes from block based to delegations based for NIR

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