[address-policy-wg] 2014-03 two cents on multi homing ASN requirement

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 03:50:56PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 04:33:57PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
> > I personally would want to see YRC implemented, 1EUR/year/resource,
> > 4294967296 EUR annual revenue will make it possible to finance
> > sufficient long AS number for Nick's use cases.
> 
> Unfortunately, APWG has no formal say in this, as everything related
> to money is for the members to decide, and it seems sufficient LIRs
> wanted "no extra costs for AS numbers!" to lobby for the removal 
> from the charging scheme... (we had "50 EUR per AS/year" in it)
> 
> One would need to personally propose this to the board so they can include 
> it in the new charging scheme drafts, *and* get enough members to actually
> vote for it...

As author I wholeheartedly agree with the two main concerns Nick raises,
we described this concern in the Rationale section B.

Going forward I see two possible paths, and would appreciate feedback on
either.

1) We add a clause to the policy that the policy only takes effect if
either in 2014 or 2015, a yearly recurring cost is associated with AS
Number assigments. Until then RIPE-525 remains in effect as is.

2) We limited the number of AS Number assignments per LIR to one
thousand. This currently values an AS Number assignment at roughly 2
euros, which in my opinion would be a fine number. This approach would
have both an abuse-dampening and a garbage collection effect.

Thoughts?

Kind regards,

Job