[address-policy-wg] 2006-07 Discussion Period extended until 17 January 2007 (First Raise in IPv4 Assignment Window Size)

> > Several people raised concerns that new LIRs may not have sufficient  
> > experience to make good decisions with a /21 AW. This is a valid  
> > concern but I do not believe a series of incremental AW raises would  
> > provide the most effective support to new LIRs. Instead, I have  
> > modified the proposal so that new LIRs would get a /21 AW six months  
> > after receiving their first allocation. They would need to send in  
> > requests as now until then. This should ensure that the LIRs most in  
> > need of support receive it, while reducing the administrative  
> > overhead for the vast majority of LIRs.
> 
> Sounds like a very good solution/proposal to me.

Could I suggest an alternative based on experience in dealing with new
LIRs on the ground?  Many new LIRs are smaller operations with
relatively small address space usage, and simply wouldn't get to send in
a huge number of assignment requests within the first 6 months.  Because
of this, they're just not going to get the hang of RIPE's address space
administrative requirements.  Would it not therefore be more sensible to
automatically increase the AW after either a set number of well-formed
assignment requests were sent into RIPE?

Nick

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