[address-policy-wg] [policy-announce] 2011-05 Last Call for Comments (Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space)

Hi Gert,

I fully aggree with your arguments this time.

Best,

Geza

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:23:17AM +0200, Erik Bais wrote:
> > > You can find the full proposal at:
> > >    https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-05
> > > Please e-mail any final comments about this proposal to
> address-policy-wg at ripe.net before 9 May 2012.
> >
> > I have 1 question before the last-call ends tomorrow. . .
> >
> > In the grand scheme of things and also seeing the other policies popping
> up for trying to divide whatever is going to be left from the final /8.
> >
> > If we all think that this reservation is a good thing for the good of
> the internet ... (And I agree on the reasoning) is reserving only a /16
> from the final /8 enough?
> >
> > 65k /24's are in the last /8 ... and for future IXP's we 'only' reserve
> a /16 (256 /24's )
> >
> > I would rather see that increased to a /14 if possible.
>
> Formally, we can't change anything "just so" at this point in the PDP - so
> we'd have to go back to review phase, draft a new policy text, and then
> re-do review phase and last call.
>
> If you think this is important enough, please formally voice "strong and
> sustained opposition" - which is what it takes to bounce the proposal
> back to review phase.
>
> OTOH, since this came from the EIX WG, I think they have a pretty good
> idea on the number of IXPs to be expected world-wide, and how much growth
> to expect there over the next 5-10 years.  Since they seem to be happy
> with the proposal as it stands, with a /16, and the constraints that this
> brings with it (= 256 new small IXPs, or 128 new IXPs with a /23, etc.),
> I would prefer to accept their assumptions and go forward.
>
> Gert Doering
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