On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:27:39PM +1300, Chris Hellberg wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ewen McNeill wrote:
All that said, none of these people (including me) have "public" v6 space, and none of them are providers that could justify the cost of getting even "small ISP" sized chunks of v6 space. Something in the order of a few dozen addresses worth, costing very little indeed (or suballocated out of someone else's larger allocation) might be practical though.
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For those who don't have any public ip address space, www.freenet6.net can provide for free a ::/48 netblock to any instantly (as long as you give a handle and email address) that is publicly routable on the 6bone through a ipv4 tunnel. Of course as mentioned before the 6bone route for that block goes via the states.
I have a handful of /64s allocated to me under the MFN TLA, since thats where I have been getting v6 transit (this to the "real" ipv6 internet, as opposed to the 6bone, if that means anything). There should be little or no cost involved in getting globally- unique address space allocated, assuming nobody here is looking for a TLA. Existing v6 routing architectures impose a model of strict aggregation with no CIDR-abuse -- i.e. your provider gives you addresses, and there is no such thing as provider-independent addressing unless you qualify for a TLA. If you don't have a provider, then the assumption is that you don't want to peer. (since getting transit via v6-in-v4 tunnels is trivially easy, this is unlikely to be an issue).
Like Joe said, there's nothing stopping us setting up tunnels between ourselves for any blocks we've got from somewhere like freenet6 setting a lower routing metric, etc across peering points.
There are three places in NZ with a NLA - Canterbury Uni, Clear and Auckland Uni. Maybe if you ask nicely they could delegate an SLA out :)
CLEAR had a number of NLAs when I was there, since I arranged 6bone transit through a number of other networks (so, one NLA per provider). I seem to remember delegating some numbers to Canterbury. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog