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

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:29:19PM +0200, Per Heldal wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:12:45 +0100
> Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
> 
> > Provider independent addressing also puts the balance of negotiating
> > power in the hands of the customer, rather than the provider.  If
> > they don't like the pricing, they can just go elsewhere and hey, it's
> > really easy.
> > 
> 
> RIR policies is not the right tool to regulate ISP behaviour.

	right or wrong, its a fact of life.  most ISPs set their filters
	based on the RIR min-allocation.

> 
> Market regulators (national and international) should define the
> requirements and make it mandatory for ISPs to ease the transition from
> an address-block to another, prevent DNS hostage-taking etc. It's very
> similar to what's already done to provide number portability in mobile
> markets.
> 
> 
> //per