[address-policy-wg] 2011-03 New Policy Proposal (Post-depletion IPv4 address recycling)

Hi,

Am 20.05.2011 um 12:11 schrieb Emilio Madaio:

> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> A proposed change to RIPE Document ripe-509, "IPv4 Address Allocation
> and Assignment Policy for the RIPE NCC Service Region", is now
> available for discussion.
> 
> 
> You can find the full proposal at:
> 
>    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-03/
> 
> We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to
> <address-policy-wg at ripe.net> before 17 June 2011.
> 

In short: I support the proposal, because it clarifies the obvious.

I tried to follow the discussion up to now and i'm not convinced of any of
the possible downsides mentioned.

Although i like to raise a little concern about the vague point 4 - Insufficient address space :
Do we really want to tell the hostmasters/IPRAs to allocate 2x /25, 4x /26 8x /27 ... and so on to LIRs in
the end? 
I mean, "routing" is out of scope (and should be), but...
This might be not so awkward with IPv4 PI assignments right now since there actually might
be some end users who don't care for internet routability at all, but for allocations?
I'm not sure putting something like ".. allocate multiple /24s" or similar in a policy would
be a better choice though.

(I hope this wasn't already discussed in a thread i didn't read properly)

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards

Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE]
Senior System- & Network Architect