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

On 9/16/12 5:12 PM, Sascha Luck wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:52:11PM +0200, Jan Zorz @ go6.si wrote:
>> IPv4 PI was never meant for that, but more for enterprises in order to
>> be able to multihome. That luxury times are over and I think that the
>> policy should reflect that.
>
> that would be the LIR-centric view. However, I understand the intention
> of the LIR system for the LIRs to be resource-management organisations
> rather than a club with exclusive access to resources. Therefore an
> end-user is no less "entitled" to IP resources than a LIR and 2012-04 in
> current form is arbitrarily discriminationg.

In a way I agree with you, but we need to look at this issue from 
pragmatic point of view.

I don't see much of a benefit for the Internet community and 
infrastructure if a company with 5 employees and two internet servers 
gets the whole /24 just because they need multihoming and are able to 
pay few EUR per year for that.

As I already mentioned, v4 resources are over and also luxury times are 
over.

If you are new on the campus, do multihoming on IPv6, get IPv4 
assignment from one (or both) of your upstreams and get over with it. I 
know you will probably not be able to run BGP for IPv4 resources - but 
that's how it is now, there's a new sheriff in town :)

Cheers, Jan