Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

Hello everyone,

It is my experience, both as a former RIR employee and as a former
employee of a large residential DSL provider in the United States, that by
affording all residential broadband provider the flexibility to make
address policy along a fixed /29 boundary will result in MORE conservation
of address space, not less.

Residential broadband is a market that is demand driven. The RIRs should
be seeking to take addressing out of the competitive side of the market,
and equal the playing field for all providers in the name of address
conservation.

It has been my experience that customers will ask for MORE address space
(3+ usable, publicly-unique addresses), not less (I only have one PC, so
obviously I only need 1), when given a choice.

If, other factors being equal, customers can shop broadband providers on
the basis of 'how much publicly unique address space will you provide me',
an imbalance will inevitably result - the long-term consequences of which
would be increased IP wastage.

RIPE needs to allow providers to assign /29s to residential broadband
customers without question and apply its justification policies only for
residential assignments shorter than a /29.

/david

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