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

* Tore Anderson

> (Just to be clear: I am not stating neither support or opposition to the
> proposal.)

I've slept on it, and I support this proposal. Allowing End Users access
to the last /8 is, in my opinion, "The Right Thing To Do".

While I think the low cost of PI space compared to PA space is going to
cause a high risk for abuse/circumvention of the "one piece each"
restriction, this is ultimately something that needs to be solved
outside of address policy.

If a new version of the proposal is going to be spun, I have the
following suggestions for modifications:

1) The proposal should «voice an opinion», as Gert put it, that the fees
for obtaining a PI prefix from the last /8 should be comparable to
obtaining a PA one through becoming a LIR. I hope that this would make
it less likely that the "one piece each" restriction would be
abused/circumvented - at least, not more likely than the current
restriction being circumvented through multiple LIRs.

2) The /24 limit for assignments should be raised to /22. While the
current proposal does reduce discrimination of End Users compared to
LIRs, it does not remove it completely. I believe that "Doing The Right
Thing" would be to make access to the last /8 completely equal, instead
of continuing to give preferential treatment to LIRs.

As I've pointed out earlier, both of those amendments would make the
RIPE last /8 policy (and pricing) more aligned with APNIC's, which
appears to work fine for them. They've used 8.7% of their last /8 over
the 17 months it's been since they ran out.

As I understand it, in their last /8 policy, assignments and allocations
are both capped at /22. Regardless of it being an assignment or an
allocation, it costs the same - and significantly more than the RIPE €50:

http://www.apnic.net/services/become-a-member/how-much-does-it-cost
http://submit.apnic.net/cgi-bin/feecalc.pl?ipv4=%2F22&ipv6=&action=Calculate

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