[address-policy-wg] RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:15:11PM +0100, Andreas Bäß/Denic wrote:
> Request For An IPv4/IPv6 Policy Allowing Assignments 
> For Network Critical Infrastructure

I strictly oppose anything that has "Assignments For Network Critical 
Infrastructure" in its title.

I *do* support establishment of a policy for "Anycast address space",
which might or might not be used for "Criticial Infrastructure elements".

This is important: the key item is "Anycast".  Everything else, critical 
or not, can be served by the current policies just fine.

So the goal should be to formulate criteria at what point something is
special enough to warrant an exceptional network block, and that should
be based on technical arguments ("Anycast service, 3 or more locations,
cannot be done by DNS (as e.g. Akamai would do it), etc.").  Without
clear criteria, this is too vague to base decisions on.

NB: the other 3 RIR's "critical infrastructure" policies are just broken 
by design - what's special about ARIN's or ICANN's network, as opposed to
the network that runs google.com?  I'd say Google is much more critical
to the average network user...

Gert Doering
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