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

>In which case I claim that my PC at home is a highly critical 
infrastructure
>as well.

When I posted the following suggestion, it included a definition
for critical infrastructure and your PC at home doesn't meet it.

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.

Your PC at home is not offering a service that will exist for the
foreseeable future. I can forsee a future for the Internet into
the 22nd century when you and your home PC will be dead.

Your home PC is probably not offering a service that is used freely 
by many organizations. I think this part of the definition needs
some work because some people would argue that Google's service 
meets this criteria but I would argue that part of Google's service
are the ads which are not offered freely, i.e. they cost money.

Your home PC is not offering any service that would continue to
be offered even if you and your home and your company cease to 
exist. But if DENIC ceases to exist, it is 100% certain that ICANN
would find some other organization to continue offering .de nameservice.

Maybe this definition should use a name other than critical
infrastructure. And my suggestion is nothing more than a
first draft. My main point is that a new policy proposal should
begin with a first draft of the policy itself so that people can discuss
the draft policy instead of spending all the time discussing why
it is impossible to write a policy at all.

--Michael Dillon