[6bone] pTLA request by NECTEC-TH - review closes 10 March 2003

itojun@iijlab.net itojun@iijlab.net
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:11:15 +0900


>% I'm generally curious why organisations which are members of the various 
>% RIRs are still coming to request 6BONE address space. Global IPv6 address 
>% space is global IPv6 address space, whether it comes from the 6bone, or in 
>% this case, from APNIC, so I'm wondering why NECTEC feel that it is 
>% necessary to comply with the 6bone rules rather than simply requesting 
>% their IPv6 address block from APNIC under their existing APNIC membership. 
>% Both address spaces will work on a testbed, the benefit of the RIR space 
>% being that it is real, not experimental, and is unlikely to be withdrawn 
>% when the 6bone experiment finishes in the future.
>	one reason is that is is much easier to delineate experimental
>	activities from things that may be more persistant.

	apnic announced that they've reserved /29 block for experimental use
	(1-year period, renewal required).  NECTEC-TH could get the block
	from the block.

itojun