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

Nick,

On 25/07/2009 2:57, "Nick Hilliard" <nick at inex.ie> wrote:

[...]

> 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%.

I wonder if you are right.

Right now, the policies for PA and PI are the same: if you qualify for a /28
of PA then you qualify for a /28 of PI. But if you change the policy so that
when you qualify for a /28 of PA then you qualify for a /24 of PI then PI
space becomes much more attractive because you get more space and it is
independent of your ISP.

Any time an ISP had a customer who wants more space than they qualify for
under the PA policy they have an opportunity to upsell them a /24 of PI. I
suspect that a policy along these lines could end up as a cash generator for
ISPs. 

I don't know how to quantify this and maybe I'm wrong anyway. Nonetheless, I
think this should be considered as a potential risk for a policy that allows
/24 PI assignments based solely on a phrase as vague as "when routing is a
major issue".

Regards,

Leo Vegoda