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

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:51 +0100, Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:
> RIPE represents network operators from one of the 5
> regions of the world which share the global routing table.
> How can RIPE reasonably deal with such a global issue
> unilaterally?

RIPE is not an island and no matter how much we'd like to pretend
otherwise, RIPE addressing policies cannot be meaningfully divorced from
the population of routing table slots.

You're free to agree or disagree with this, but the bottom line is that
if RIPE changes its policies on PI assignment, this is likely to impact
the number of announced PI prefixes, regardless of whether the
announcements are accepted or not.

Also, RIPE is not dealing with this unilaterally.  It's dealing with the
issue in its own area, which is what it's mandated to do by its members
and charged to do by ICANN.  If it makes policies in one particular
area, these policies are not directly relevant in other parts of the
world, unless other RIR areas in the world decide that they want to
adopt similar policies.

Nick

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