[address-policy-wg] 2014-01 New Policy Proposal (Abandoning the Minimum Allocation Size for IPv4)

All,

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 02:18:44PM +0100, Marco Schmidt wrote:
>You can find the full proposal at:
>
>    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-01
>
>We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to

I don't think this proposal takes into account operational reality. The 
fact of the matter is, that there is a lower limit to what allocation
size is operationally useful to a LIR (unless the routing community is 
prepared to accept /32s in the DFZ).
Add to that the extra complexity of reverse delegating </24 zones 
that is mentioned elsewhere in the thread and the likely outcome is a
mess.

I think the better way to do this would be to:

- retain the /22 min-alloc size until the last /8 is gone

- possibly change the *transfer* policies to allow transfers of /24< x </22 

- implement something like 2014-01 but with a min-alloc size of /24 when
   that happens

- review after a year(?) with a view to whether any smaller allocation
   size is actually *operationally useful* to LIRs

I do not want to go back to the not-so-long-ago days of having to
concoct fiction in order to get a useful amount of resources out of the
NCC. 

rgds,
Sascha Luck