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

This discussion is *not* about address policy, 
it really is about ** routing policy! **  
The goal is to get prefixes propagated.  
They could live in any odd part of the address space!

Routing policy is made by ISPs. (period)

In order to provide hints to ISPs making such policy I have previolusly
proposed a *registry* for "special" prefixes with some general
categories like:

	- root server
	- TLD server
	- second level name server
	- internet search engine
	- other important prefix (see remarks section ;-)
	- ....

Such a registry could be provided by the RIRs and used by the ISPs when
defining and implementing their routing policy.  The art here is to
design the categories and to decide which ones can be policed.  It is
easy to determine and to check regularly if a prefix contains name
servers for instance.  Other categories should be "self-declaration". 
ISPs can then decide if and how to use such a registry. 

Is this something that provides added value to ISPs?
Is it something that is useful for those using such prefixes?

Daniel


PS: If getting any address space at all is a problem for these applications, 
this needs to be addressed.  Maybe it is already addressed by adjusting
the "initial" usage requirements back to "nil" or some reasonable low level and
reducing the initial allocation size.

This is a different discussion which belongs here, but I do not reeally follow
it anymore, so pardon me if I just assume it is moving along.