[address-policy-wg] Assignments for Critical Infrastruction

Greg,

2008/11/17 Greg L. <bgp2 at linuxadmin.org>:
> Current IPv4 already provides more advantage to ccTLD and gTLD with IPv4 /24
> prefix allocations for BGP anycast than for other business entities that
> would like to get /24 prefix for BGP anycast DNS deployments.

It does not provide 'more advantage", RIPE policy provides just
'exactly ONE /24 IPv4 prefix and exactly ONE /48 IPv6 prefix' and it's
not enough if you want to provide reliable infrastructure for TLD.

>  I don't see a reason why more resources should be allocated to a specific
> group/entities named under "Critical infrastructure" category that still
> compete with businesses that are unable to get /24 BGP anycast assignment
> for DNS solutions from Ripe. This is not fair (it was a bit fair when gTLD
> and ccTLD started out 5+ years ago).

All these other businesses relies on services provided by ccTLD/gTLD, that's
why.  ccTLD/gTLD operation is almost as important as root servers operations.
Certainly there are some categories of TLDs according to number of registered
domains, but I would like to avoid a discussion about how much domain you need
to have registered to be allowed to have /24 anycast prefix.

Other reason could be that this would align RIPE policy with other
RIRs policies.

> This is why many European companies prefer Arin's IP space. Welcome to Arin!

I am no ARIN policy expert, but from what I remember there is no special policy
for other businesses in ARIN policy.  But there is a special policy
for 'critical
infrastructure' and TLD DNS operators is already using that.  Now that's unfair,
we are basically punished for being in RIPE region, since you can get
more anycast
prefixes from all other RIRs.

And please note that most of European TLDs are unable to move to other regions
because of legal stuff.  It's much easier to get legal status in US if you are
private owned then if you are not-for-profit.

Ondrej.
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