Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

That's too simplistic.  A /19 in the Netherlands may well make sense.
In the UK it would be far too small, for ANY of our registries.
We can't argue for non-uniform policies ("Uganda has far smaller
requirement than the Netherlands") on the one hand and uniform ones
("we have to be seen to be even handed") on the other hand simultaneously.

Driving the argument from more than one set of conflicting goals at once
is obviously going to lead to difficulties.  If the overriding goal
is to eke out IPv4's useful lifespan, a fuzzy goal, that's sure to
result in fuzzy guidelines rather than strict rules.

Here's a suggestion for one simple rule.  "Where delegating address space
to a provider registry, a) never delegate a block smaller than any
existing PA block already delegated, and b) once 3 such blocks are
delegated, always delegate a block at least 4 times bigger".

This will allow Uganda to grow to the size of the Netherlands, and the
Netherlands to grow to the size of the UK, and the UK to grow to the
size of the USA without changing the guidelines and without requiring
all registries under one delegating registry to be at the same level of
Internet size and growth rate.

On Jan 26,  8:34am, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
} Subject: Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
} On Thu, 25 Jan 1996 16:49:48 -0800 you said:
} >We've got a basic conflict between "smaller" and "better", whose resolution
} >will require (in the absense of really good renumbering technology)
} >constraining our insistance on efficient address utilization by measuring
} >the effect this has on routing tables.  We need to get some quantitative
} >goals assigned to this so we can measure what is "good" and "bad".  I'd
} >(again) suggest the following:
} 
} A /19 in Amsterdam makes sense as a maximum allocation.  A /19 in Uganda
} doesn't.  I think due to different geographics we need to realize
} that allocation policy has to be different depending on where you are.
} 
} Hank
}-- End of excerpt from Hank Nussbacher



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