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

On 06/04/2010 07:49, Sergey Gotsulyak wrote:
> 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) ?

Yes, they need to do this to ensure that the address space which is
assigned is generally reachable from a variety of locations on the internet
and that it isn't widely filtered in bgp.

> 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,

All RIRs have the ability to choose what address space is assigned from
what pool.  The question you're asking is whether they would be prepared to
single you out for preferential treatment by assigning you address space
which has what you perceive to be higher commercial value than arbitrary
addresses.

I don't think there's any policy which states that the RIPE NCC can't do
this.  On the other hand, there may be operational reasons why they
wouldn't: preferential treatment and assignment of potentially polluted
address ranges being two that immediately spring to mind.

Nick