25 Sep
2024
25 Sep
'24
10:41 a.m.
On 25/09/2024 11:17, Simon Kelley via BitFolk Users wrote:
When the distant future arrives (it's always sooner than you think) will
it be possible to route old and new subnets in parallel for a while? I
have a /48 for a VPN and the Jump addresses are hard-coded into all the
usual configuration. Being able to add the subnets into all of that
before the old one go away and break existing stuff would be a big
advantage, and IPv6 for all its faults at least makes giving interfaces
multiple addresses easy and functional.
Thinking about this made we wonder if, in the brave new IPv6 world, I
could get my own personal allocation of address space which I could take
with me when moving providers, in much the same was as registering a DNS
domain.
A bit of Googling reveals that RIPE will allocate PI (provider
independent) netblocks to End Users
https://www.ripe.net/publications/ipv6-info-centre/deployment-planning/obta…
but that document doesn't really make clear if the RIPE definition of an
End User stretches to a bloke in a shed.
I assume as they have their own allocation that BitFolk is a RIPE
member. Could you or would you consider registering PI netblocks for
customers if RIPE allowed it?
Simon.