[address-policy-wg] Reopening discussion on RIPE Policy Proposal 2006-05

On 25/07/2009 20:29, Per Heldal wrote:
> RIR policies is not the right tool to regulate ISP behaviour.

I'm not attempting to cast judgement on this either way.

All I'm saying is that because internet businesses recognise that PI 
addresses provide tangible business advantages, they will attempt to obtain 
them by any reasonable means at their disposal.  If this means lying on an 
application form, then they will do this.

I believe this to be harmful to the RIPE community.

To get a handle on the problem, here are the PI assignment stats for the 
past couple of years:

> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2009/msg00267.html

Since 2005-01-01, 128 assignments were made of less than /24 and 3934 of 
exactly /24.  These figures do not look to me like the results of 3934 
honest assignment application forms.

Turning this around, if the minimum PI assignment size were increased from 
/32 to /24, there would have been 23k extra PI addresses out of 5493760 
total PI addresses assigned between 2005-01-01 and 2009-05.  That's about 0.4%.

Nick