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Proposal: IPv6 assignments for critical infrastructure

Incentive:
No IPv6 assignments for critical infrastructure specified yet. Can be incorporated in afpol-v6.

Proposed policy for PI assignments of IPv6 address space does not cater for special case of critical infrastructure.

1.0 Definitions:

Critical infrastructure includes Internet Exchange Points, ccTLD DNS servers and root DNS servers. The addition of more global root DNS servers is unlikely and all present servers are operated by entities from outside the AfriNIC area. For the purpose of this policy is is proposed to not distinguish between Root and ccTLD DNS servers. It is suggested that on request popular SLD operations can also qualify for critical infrastructur assignments.

2.0 Proposed policy:

On request AfriNIC assigns IPv6 address ressource to [operators of] critical infrastructure. Internet Exchange Points, DNS root server operations, DNS ccTLD operations, and popular SLD DNS operations upon justification are considered critical infrastructure.

The default assignment size for an Internet Exchange Point shall be a /48. Assignments can be larger blocks on request with justification.
For critical DNS server operations ( root DNS, ccTLD DNS, and SLD DNS with justification ) default assignment size is equal to the default assignment size for PI assignments of IPv6 address space to End Users [as defined in separate policy].

Operators of critical infrastructure can obtain ASN assignments from AfriNIC. They must be multihomed to do so.

3.0 Remarks

IPv6 PI policy proposal (afpol-v60604) specifies temporary assignments and no special cases for critical infrastructure.