[address-policy-wg] 2006-05 New Policy Proposal (PI Assignment Size)

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:43:22PM +0200, Garry Glendown wrote:
> What's the point in making end users (as in Companies, etc.) register as 
> an LIR just because they want (or need) a network of their own? 

Discouragement.

There are some end users where "everyone agrees" that PI space is a "must",
and then there are some where renumbering really would be quick and 
mostly painless.  

I strongly think that the latter kind should not be able to get PI space 
easily, for a one-time-fee, and burden the *recurring cost* for their 
convenience on everybody else.

If we make PI cost a "reasonable" price (like "extra-small LIR") per
year, this will not hinder networks that "must have" PI very much - and
those that find PI a nice and cheap convenience might reconsider.

[..]
> If the amount of prefixes were a reason, shouldn't ISPs be (en)forced to 
> aggregate their announcements? 

If someone has a good idea how to tackle that, I'd like to hear about it.  
Really.  (But this is only remotely relevant to the ongoing discussion)

[..]
> Rather, in order to discourage PI usage by endusers who don't actually 
> need a PI network from a technical standpoint, why not charge an 
> appropriate amount for assigning PI networks? 

That's the idea.

> Please correct me if I got 
> this wrong, but at the moment, PI networks count towards the LIR's 
> rating. 

Which means "the LIR pays", which hopefully translates into "the PI 
holder pays".

The problem with the current scheme is that it's a one-time fee, payable
only in the year of PI assignment (!), and after that, the PI is free.

> Which can end up - in a way - to be unfair, as PI networks are 
> requested for end customer, which may at some point in the future switch 
> providers. The points are still counted, even though the provider does 
> not have any revenue to count against it. 

No.  The LIR is charged only in the year of PI assignment.

Gert Doering
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