[address-policy-wg] Policy Proposal : "Run Out Fairly"

Dear Daniel, dear all,

First of all I support this proposal, and thank you for taking the time to
create it. I think the idea has great merit, but I¹m also reminded of an
idea I sent out to the address policy mailing list and the feedback I got
based on that. For that thread, see:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2008/msg00501.
html . Just to refresh your memory, I proposed a policy that would only
allocate a single block of space, regardless of the size of the request and
available remaining inventory. One of the main shortcomings of my idea was
that assignments from a new allocation don¹t happen in a Œgradual¹ way,
which is one of the main assumptions behind any scheme based on
time-windows. Larger organizations will just come back quicker ­ not
necessarily after the set window. I¹m afraid this proposal has the same
Œweakness¹.

Kind regards,

Remco


On 06-04-09 14:10, "Daniel Karrenberg" <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> attached you will find a policy proposal we call "Run Out Fairly".
> It is based on a discussion instigated by your's truly during the
> open policy hour at the latest RIPE meeting.
> 
> This is a proposal to gradually reduce the allocation and assignment
> periods in step with the expected life time of the IPv4 unallocated pool
> in order to address the perception of unfairness once the pool has run
> out.
> 
> The proposal is not intended to stretch the lifetime of the unallocated
> pool.
> 
> The proposal is independent of other proposals to reserve address space
> for transition purposes and/or new entrants.  It can be implemented
> independently of these.
> 
> We thank Filiz Yilmaz for her help, invite discussion of this proposal
> and look forward to high quality comments.
> 
> For the authors
> 
> Daniel Karrenberg
> 
> PS: Can we refer to this proposal by name and not by number? ;-)
> 



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