[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #alpha: TLD Anycast Allocation Policy

On 24-mrt-05, at 9:58, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:

>> I would also be very happy if RIPE would charge enough money to people
>> wanting to do this to make them consider whether they really need it.

>   ...this is just a fuzzy wording for:

>   "Make the RIRs sell address space at different (and maximum) 
> premiums,
>    depending on how dearly the applicant needs the addresses at that
>    particular point in time."

>   I would not support such a proposal.

No, what it means is: "People who inject routes in the global routing 
table, for whatever reason, increase the cost of operating routers. So 
for reasons of fairness and as a mild deterrent, these people should 
bear a generous share of the costs associated with operating the RIR 
infrastructure."

A good way to do this would be to require everyone who wants such a 
block to become a RIR and to charge address based costs only on the 
number of blocks and not on their size.

Note that I'm not saying these people should pay an artificially 
inflated fee (although deep in my heart I would love that), just their 
fair share. It shouldn't be cheaper to obtain a special prefix than a 
regular one.

Also, there should be limits on the number of special prefixes.