[address-policy-wg] 2012-04 New Draft Document Published (PI Assignments from the last /8)

* Daniel Roesen

> To those who ask for "same price tag" for both PA and PI on grounds of
> "fairness"... What is fair in asking the same price for what is
> essentially a one-time operation (PI assignment) compared to the ongoing
> maintenance of a LIR membership (PA alloc - think about assignment
> request tickets, yearly billing, etc.)?

The comparsion I'm making is between an organistion that either:

* Joins the NCC - becomes a LIR
* Makes 1 initial allocation request - gets a /22
* Makes 1 PA assignment request (to itself)

Cost: €1750

Or:

* Makes 1 PI assignment request [through a sponsoring LIR]

Cost: €50

I don't believe that the current prices are «fair» either. While the
first option is certainly means work for the NCC, I doubt it is 35 times
the work. The resource is scarce - it is impossible to accomplish «fair».

In any case, the reason why I'd like PI and PA to cost about the same is
that 2012-04 with the current pricing structure would mean it is too
easy and cheap for an organisation to work around the «max a /24»
limitation. I could trivially set up legal entities like so:

* ToreISP Main Street 1-80 Oslo
* ToreISP Main Street 81-120 Oslo
* ToreISP Grand Avenue 20-35 Stockholm

...and so on, and get all the PI /24s I need. The organisations that are
actually NCC members will end up sponsoring me, too - potentially ending
up with even higher membership fees, as the Impact Analysis points out.

It may be circumenting policy, but I don't think there's any way to stop
it. (The NCC mentions this in the Impact Analysis, too.) That's why I
think there must be a financial disincentive against doing so, and €50
doesn't cut it.

I'll end with an example of something similar already taking place:
Under .no, a single organisation can only register 100 domains. Which
leads to organisations such as these:

http://w2.brreg.no/enhet/sok/treffliste.jsp?navn=edda+domene

This isn't the work of a shady domain pirate/squatter either, Edda a
very large and respected media/publishing conglomerate here.

-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com