[address-policy-wg] Re: Easy to remember IP-address

Shane Kerr wrote:

> To be clear, we're not talking about anyone getting more or less address
> space, or allocating in a way that makes aggregation more difficult. I
> thought those were the two basic goals of IP allocation policy, right?

> The RIPE NCC does not have any restrictions on which particular
> resources it allocates or assigns. In fact, I am pretty sure that any
> sensible person would argue that the RIPE NCC should have as much
> freedom as possible to do things in the most efficient way. So I think
> the RIPE NCC already has the power to issue "vanity addresses" in the
> rare case where someone asks for these.

As far as we're concerned we're going to follow all the necessary
requirements and formalities needed for assignment of a block of
IP-addreesses.

We're ready to apply throught a standard procedure from the name of
our company, or through one of the present LIRs.

We could even get a status of a LIR for our company if needed and pay
the initial fee and yearly fees. We hope that an assignment of the
minimal IP block of addresses 2.2.2.0/24 (or 2.2.2.0/21) will not
cause any routing problems, because the availability of this address
from any part of the world will be achieved throught BGP Anycast.

> Mostly I find it a pity that the NCC wasn't more accommodating and that
> we're having this discussion at all. Maybe the software used for this
> process does not have a manual override or something? Oh well, compared
> to the horror stories I hear about the bad old days, I guess we have no
> complaints....

We're trying to figure out if there are any reasons that make an
assignment of the requested range technically challenged, but
apparently there are any restrictions. According to this experiment
of APNIC, described in the RIPE blog:

http://labs.ripe.net/content/pollution-18,

engineers from the APNIC or RIPE NCC have a certain freemdom in
experimenting with undistributed addresses like 1.1.1.1 (2.2.2.2) ?

That means that theoretically it is possible to manually enter data
in the RIPE database and manually distribute address 2.2.2.2 for it
to find a really beneficial application for the internet community,
and not just go away to another company that sets up something like
DSL-connection pool, because for them vanity addresses are totally
irrelevant.

I'd like to point it out one more time that we're talking
about a very useful and free DNS service for the end-users, that will
allow millions of people from Russia and Europe to speed up
DNS-requests and filter out untrustful websites like with malware and
phishing content...

Besides, we hope to provide services for parents preventing children
from accessing forbidden websites. This alone will benefit millions
of internet users too.  

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