[address-policy-wg] Policy Change Request - Allow address allocations for anycast DNS operation

> It depends on how tight we want to knit the mesh (and emphasise
> conservation et.al. :-)

That is indeed the question that we have to agree to.

> >I thought that those who are attracted by the policy will have no 
problem
> >justifying it and RIPE would have no problem to ask people returning 
the
> >networks if they do not use them as stated in the policy. But maybe
> >my thinking is too positive here.

> I guess everything which essentially gives you easy access to a PI /24
> (/32 for that matter in the long run) is going to attract interest, at
> least eventually.
> 
> Thus here are my questions for double-checking my own mental picture and
> assumptions:
> 
> - the applicant has to be an established LIR - correct?

I have don't think that this should be an imperative. Do you really think
that LIRs should not be able to request such an allocation on behalf of
a customer that would like to do that?

> - as setting up a server and finding slaves, plus anycast in general is
> not really rocket science: is there any closer definiton of "Operators
> providing DNS for a zone served by a number of name servers..." -
> would my own domain (say - netcraft.at) qualify as well?

If I recall it correctly we have opened the intial qualification from
TLD DNS operators to a broader scope knowingly to include those who feel
that their DNS operation is important enough for them to run this kind
of infrastructure in that particular way i.e. anycasting with a number of 
NS
that would break the 512 limit in a "signifacant" number of responses.
What I have heard so far the expected number of requests for this kind of 
allocations will be in a range that most believe that it is not necessary
to knit the mesh too tight but give a credit to the applicant.

> - and trying to reclaim that address space would be pretty cumbersome
> for both parties, I guess, unless the zone (all zones on those
> servers?) go(es) away _completely_ ?!

If someone finds it cumbersome to renumber because he has to return the 
resources granted to do dns anycasting he probably should not apply for
this resource ;-)

Cheers
Andreas