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

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:54:35 +0100
<michael.dillon at bt.com> 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.
> 
> And RIR policies do NOT regulate anything. 

They shouldn't. I did however misinterpret a previous comment in the
thread to be about liberalisation of PI-policy. I don't want RIPE to
hand out smaller blocks, which was the basis for my arguments.

I've re-read the proposal, and I do agree that RIPE should not
hand out blocks smaller than what is defined as the minimum assignment.
Handing out blocks smaller than what is permitted through general
filtering recommendations makes no sense. Sorry for the confusion.


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