[address-policy-wg] new policy idea for PA allocations

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Remco van Mook wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:22:42 +0200
> From: Remco van Mook <Remco.vanMook at eu.equinix.com>
> To: matthew.ford at bt.com
> Cc: address-policy-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: RE: [address-policy-wg] new policy idea for PA allocations
> 
> Mat wrote:
>
>> Preventing a single request from wiping out the remaining RIR reserves
>> can more easily be prevented by some policy along the lines of 'no
> more
>> than x% of remaining reserves', coupled with some lower bound.
>
> I can see where you're coming from with this. However, any percentage
> scheme is going to be fraught with implementation complexity. I'd rather
> have a clear, well-defined limit than one that arguably depends on what
> time of day you filed your request (or when the request was approved -
> what counts?) How far do we go? Will we allocate /28s to fill that
> percentage? Please don't.
>
> Doing it my way will allow the NCC to put up a webpage saying 'the
> current largest block we hand out is a /xx'. Very transparent, very
> educational for your users and a very visible sign that they ought to
> move to IPv6.

I personally think this will only increase the effort to get that biggest 
block availlable, in a time when v4 is running out, i think some will use 
any trick availlable to get the last free (v4) ip:s.


>
> Best,
>
> Remco
>
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