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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear RIPE members and community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;font-weight:normal">We have come across a question of correct interpretation for “utilization” wthin�the current “IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy“
 RIPE-738 document:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#58595B;font-style:normal">5.2.2. Applied HD-Ratio<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The HD-Ratio value of 0.94 is adopted as indicating an acceptable address utilisation for justifying the allocation of additional address space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Appendix A provides a table showing
<u>the number of assignments that are necessary to achieve an acceptable utilisation</u> value for a given address block size.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#58595B">10. Appendix A: HD-Ratio<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">The utilisation threshold T, expressed as a number of individual /56 prefixes
<u>to be allocated from IPv6 prefix P</u>, can be calculated as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Thus, the utilisation threshold for an LIR requesting subsequent allocation of IPv6 address block is specified as a function of the prefix size and target HD ratio.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">This utilisation refers to the use of /56s as an efficiency measurement unit, and does not refer to the utilisation of addresses within those End Sites.
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">It is an address allocation utilisation ratio and not an address assignment utilisation ratio.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The two underlined sentences seem to contradict each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For a correct interpretation and calculation of the HD-Ratio/Utilization-Threshold (T) for IPv6-subsequent block eligibility, what is now correct “allocation” or
 “assignment” ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In the LIR-Portal there is an %-indication for “my own resources” which soley refers to assignments within a specific block. Allocations seem not to be considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What is the correct way to calculcate the utilization?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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