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

>> Suggestion... RIPE will allocate /24 blocks from the IPv4 address
>>               range that was once called "Class C" address space
>>               for use by services that are part of the Internet's
>>               critical infrastructure. These blocks are for services
>>               that will exist for the forseeable future, are used
>>               freely by many organizations, and are likely to outlive
>>               the lifetime of the organization currently operating the
>>               service.

>That's not helpful, as it centers around "critical infrastructure".  How
>is the RIPE NCC supposed to evaluate how "criticial" something is?

A workable policy would need to have definitions of "infrastructure" and
"critical" that RIPE can use to evaluate any requests.

>.de reachability is mostly meaningless for the majority of the 
>Internet users (as are all other ccTLDs).

Reachability of .com and .net is also mostly meaningless for the
majority of the Internet users. They only care if they can get to
.cn sites because they can only read one language. The Internet has
never recognized the tyranny of the majority so I don't think we 
should be worrying about this today.

--Michael Dillon