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

* Tore Anderson

> I don't make the claim that these numbers necessarily are meaningful or
> even relevant to the discussion, though. You be the judge of that...

Perhaps it is more interested in looking at how things have gone in the
APNIC region so far; They started delegating from their last /8 block
386 days ago. Since then they've handed out 1,048,320 addresses from
103/8, or 6.25% of it.

Of those 1,048,320 addresses, 173,312 (16.53%) were assigned, and
875,008 (83.47%) were allocated. Out of a total 1,253 delegations, 361
(28.81%) were assignments, while 892 (71.19%) were allocations.

(I've disregarded their debogon prefix delegations. Also last /8
delegations made from outside 103/8, if any, aren't counted.)

I'm not familiar enough with APNIC's policies regarding the definition
of "assignment" vs "allocation" to know whether or not this is relevant
to this discussion or not, but if they're roughly the same as in the
RIPE region, the APNIC numbers seems to me to indicate that allowing
assignments from the last /8 will not dramatically reduce its longevity.
Which in turn is enough for me to support allowing PI assignments under
our last /8 policy.

It's also worth noting, perhaps, that in the APNIC region both
allocations and assignments appear to be capped at a /22. 2012-04
proposes capping PI at a /24, which I suppose may further diminish
concerns that allowing PI in the first place will make the last /8 go
away too quickly. On the other hand, limiting PI at /24 but PA at /22
would still cause the effect of forcing organisations to become LIRs, if
the organisation's requirement cannot be fulfilled with a /24 only.
That's kind of pointless, if the only assignment they'll ever make as
LIRs is to their own organisation. So I think it would be even better if
we did like APNIC did and capped both PI and PA at a /22 - that way, all
the internet organisations in the region gets to have life rafts of the
exact same size. (But perhaps they should be equally priced also...)

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson
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