[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 New Version and Impact Analysis Published (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

I think these observations are more than reasonable
thank you Nick
regards
Riccardo

Il 19/10/2016 11:53, Nick Hilliard ha scritto:
> Marco Schmidt wrote:
>> We encourage you to read the draft document and send any comments to
>> <address-policy-wg at ripe.net> before 17 November 2016.
> The purpose of the policy is to restrict the flow of /22 allocations
> from the RIPE remaining ipv4 pool.  While I'm sympathetic to this idea,
> the policy is not going to fix the problem that it sets out to fix and
> will create a new set of problems which will be extremely difficult for
> the RIPE NCC to recover from.  Consequently I do not support it, because:
>
> 1. the core problem won't be fixed: the outgoing flow of /22s will not
> be affected in any way because speculators will get allocations using
> shelf Companies which can be sold as-is, thereby bypassing any policy
> that the RIPE community might want to consider in this area.  The only
> way to even begin to fix this would be to move back to a needs-based
> allocation policy.
>
> 2. unregistered transfers will become a problem and this may become
> intractable in the future.  This directly goes against the core
> principals of the RIPE database which is to ensure accurate registration
> of address holder details.
>
> Also, asset divesting is not catered for in the policy. If a company /
> LIR splits up, there is no way to handle splitting of IPv4 address
> allocations in the policy.  There is no clear way to fix this problem
> within the principals of the policy.
>
> As an aside note, the problem of ipv4 allocation speedup from the RIPE
> NCC has been exacerbated by the recent RIPE NCC GM resolution: "The
> General Meeting approves the ability of RIPE NCC members to create
> additional LIR accounts".  The net effect of this is that there is now a
> divergence between intended RIPE policy and RIPE NCC implementation.
> This is probably not helpful in the long run.
>
> Nick
>

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