[address-policy-wg] About the /22 allocation limitation

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
> In terms of IPv4, the little new LIRs have been doomed for a long, long
> time.

Actually this very much depends on what the little new LIRs are trying
to do.

- setup a web hosting shop for a few high profile customers?  works.

- setup a medium-sized access ISP that gives public IPv4 addresses to 
  all customers?  fail

- setup a medium-sized access ISP that gives IPv6 and NATted IPv4 addresses 
  to customers, using the /22 for the public side of the NAT64 and CGN NAT? 
  -> works!  (well, depending on how large "medium-sized" is)

- setup a mass-market web hosting shop with public IPv4 addresses for
  each of a million customers?  fail


Insofar, I consider our "last /8 policy" to be a success - without that 
policy, the pool would be fully empty today, and of the cases above, all
four would be "fail!".

The intention of the policy is to be able to give every LIR a small amount 
of IPv4 "for the foreseeable future", to ensure that at least some business 
cases can still be met.  If you want to start a business today that needs
"large amounts of IPv4 space", put the costs for that into your business
plan and see whether it's still viable - business 101, nothing special to
see here.

Gert Doering
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