[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:20:45PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> >It reduces the possible amount of applicants from "anybody out there"
> >(many billions) to "anybody who thinks this is so important to his
> >heart / business that he's willing to shell out serious money for it".
> 
> So you agree that an excessive number of prefixes is bad?

What is excessive? Is it "anything as long as _I_ get my prefix"?

> Then the only thing we disagree about is whether the LIR fee will be 
> enough to make the number non-excessive. It will at first, of course, 
> but it's unlikely to do so in the long term as RIRs are not-for-profit 
> so the more people become a LIR, the lower the fees become.

And then there are the non-for-profit orgs who want to multihome
properly. You want to keep them out because they don't have enough money
to spend to RIRs for that, right?


Regards,
Daniel

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