[address-policy-wg] 2013-06 New Policy Proposal (PA/PI Unification IPv6 Address Space)

Hi,

(no hats)

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 06:41:14PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> Q: How would that work?
> A: We could end up with two levels of RIPE NCC membership, e.g. "full"
> like we have today, and "associate". Both would be fully-blown LIRs, but
> to keep the operational overhead in NCC billing/finance low, the
> membership fee for these "associate" members would be charged by the NCC
> to the full members who are sponsoring them (just like with PI).

I'm not exactly sure what the difference between an "associate member" 
and today's "consumer of resources provided by a sponsoring LIR" would
then be, except for the title on the contract.   On the contrary, some
enterprises just don't want to deal with the RIPE NCC if they can make
a contract with their friendly neighbouring LIR instead...

So I'm not sure it's worth abandoning the established concept of sponsoring 
LIR right away (especially since doing away with it would affect IPv4 PI
as well...).  It wouldn't make a difference anyway :-) - if we want to
give people the option to take a /48 because it's big enough for them,
we'd then still have "two standard sizes"...

So, yes, another avenue could be "abandon /48 assignments/allocations",
but *that* brings up another can of worms (what about an enterprise that
has 5 locations that all have local ISP upstreams and want to do BGP
multihoming?  5x /48 suits them well today, 1x /32 with someone blocking
more-specifics from that because no site is announcing the /32 aggregate
would not be that good).

I'm repeating the "no hats" bit, just contributing to the discussion as
someone who has fought IPv6 policy for a while now :-) - and this is 
discussion phase, so take this all as "brain dump", not as "advice from
the chair".

gert
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