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

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>> |That's why I'm in favour to have a policy that permits
>> |allocations for specific, well-defined Anycast services.  That
>> |allocations would come from a well-known block, so people
>> |would know to not filter /24s from there (and so on).
>>
>> What should the cirteria to get "Anycast space" be ?
>
> I had a proposal that nobody commented on :-) - it didn't mention
> "critical" anywhere, so maybe it wasn't sexy enough.
>
> I suggested:
> --------------------------
>  - Anycast deployment
>  - multiple distributed servers bring benefits for the whole community
>  - due to protocol limitations this cannot be done using other 
> approaches
>    (like "put up 100 servers at various ISP networks, using PA space 
> from
>    those ISPs")
> --------------------------

I think this has the same problem as "critical infrastructure" in that 
you now need to define "benefits for the whole community". Second, with 
the definition above, if I am an ISP that decides to anycast my 
DNS-servers, do I get the "anycast space"? To be honest, I think you 
need to nail down what we are talking about. Maybe we will need a 
"Anycasted RIPE NCC Service Region TLD DNS-server space".

>  b) can be evaluated by a RIPE NCC hostmaster, so there must be clear
>     and *easy* rules - it needs not be easy to get the space, but to
>     say "you go - you don't" should be easy.

I think that anycasting is a problem (been there, done that, waiting 
for the t-shirt) when it comes to getting address space. I am sure you 
can find a swamp C-block, as Randy suggested - BUT I do think there is 
a point in registering a block correctly and getting it in a legitimate 
way. Now, if what we are trying to solve is anycasting for TLD 
DNS-servers in the RIPE NCC Service region, why don't we just write 
that? If it turns out there is a problem of anycasting Goolge-servers 
in the region that is considered to be painful enough that we all think 
they should get special treatment, let's write that up then.


- - kurtis -

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