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

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:20:45PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 5-apr-05, at 14:34, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> >>Either having very many people get /32s is harmful, or it isn't. How
> >>does paying the RIPE fee move this from "harmful" to "non-harmful"?
> 
> >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?

Of course.  

The question is "how many is excessive" and "is there real danger that
the number of LIRs will reach 'excessive' any time soon" (5 years)?

I pick "5 years", because I guess that's the time it will need to
develop significant changes in the IPv6 protocol stacks, like "shim6"
or whatever will come up - and then we certainly need to reconsider
the policy.

> 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.

I'm sure ncc-services will find ways to keep up the fees :-)

Gert Doering
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