[address-policy-wg] 2012-04 New Policy Proposal (PI Assignments from the last /8)

<all hats off>

Alright then, for the sake of argument I'll oppose until I see some
convincing numbers. Back in the original last /8 discussion the rationale
for choosing a /22 was that it would get us about 16k final allocations,
or 1 for every NCC member and room for the membership to double in size.
Now, we have a number of new realities:

- final /8 applies to all v4 address space when it kicks in, including
space that gets returned later;
- It also applies to v4 address space that has not been allocated or
assigned by RIPE NCC at that date;
- An additional 'special case' block was set aside for IXPs.

This all impacts, in a positive or negative way, how much future there is
in our final /8 policy. I'd like to think that we made a well-considered
decision back then, and if we're going to make a fundamental change like
this one I'd like to see some numbers in an impact analysis. Based on
current distribution, how much space do we anticipate will fall under the
final /8 policy, how much of it will be allocated in /22 PA and how much
will be allocated in /24 PI? Given the 'one size fits nobody' nature of
the final /8 policy, this would be about the number of
allocations/assignments done so far, not the size.

Personally I'm rather sick and tired of hearing people say 'yes, let's
break IPv4 so we all MUST move to IPv6'. If you think this is good policy
or even good engineering, please think again. It will make us end up with
a broken internet that, surprise, we won't be managing any more. Breaking
IPv4 might lead to increased IPv6 adoption, but not on the internet as we
know it today. Everybody who wants to connect his organisation to the
internet is going to need at least some IPv4 address space for the time
being, so why screw it up for new entrants?

Finally, I would like to hear how this proposal correlates to the charge
for PI space - the good old 2007-01 chestnut. For post-depletion LIRs, the
grapes would be quite sour if one could pick up a quarter of the available
resources for about one twentieth of the price. Should "Final /8 PIv4"
have a separate price tag?

Best

Remco



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