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

Gert and all,

Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:15:33PM +0100, Joao Damas wrote:
> > >>IPs around until you have a clean /24 for this sort of use.
> > >>Last, Gert missed the point by reducing the discussion to only the /24
> > >>that would be used for the service IP, because with anycast you will
> > >>always need a different IP address to be able to access each of the
> > >>anycast instances,
> > >
> > >To the contrary.  *This* can (and should) be done with PA space,
> >
> > It may or it may not be possible. When anycasting a service you want to
> > keep the origin ASN the same, so you need your own routing
> > infrastructure, separating your anycasted equipment from that of the
> > rest of the net.  This means that the management addresses will be
> > inside that separate routing infrastructure and so your statement "can
> > and should" can not and should not be made a pre-condition.
>
> This is certainly one way to setup things.
>
> But even so there is no reason not to use PA space for the management
> side of things - announcing the PA block to your host network, if you
> feel like having to announce the management IPs somewhere, but no reason
> to pollute the global table with local information.

  I think this depends on whether or not the local information is of a
nature to critical infrastructure, which of course also requires a
good definition as to what "critical infrastructure" is and is not.

>
>
> > >Strong disagreement.
> > See above
>
> Indeed :-)
>
> Gert Doering
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