Criteria for initial PA Allocation

 
> While I agree that it at some point would be interesting to discuss how to
> be more agressive reclaiming address space, I would urge the WG to focus on
> the proposal from RIPE NCC:
> - should we introduce a creiteria for PA allocations
> - if so what should that criteria be.

RFC 2050 clearly outlines one of the primary responsibilities of the RIRs:
conservation. Though this responsibility often does not reconcile with
another primary responsibility, the stability of the routing
infrastructure, it is nonetheless an important concept.

RIPE's long-standing tradition of handing out /19s and /20s to all
requestors, *regardless of actual need*, clearly irresponsibly violates
the essential tenants of RFC 2050 - a document which is supposed to be the
foundation of an RIR's address assignment policies.

I implore the RIPE LIR-WG to support the NCC's current effort to better
focus the PA and PI allocation guidelines on the principles so enumerated
in RFC 2050.

The current discussion in this thread, while interesting, does not appear
to give sufficient feedback to the NCC staff trying to gauge consensus (or
lack thereof). 

Thus, I urge you to reply to these messages with your professional
opinions:

(1) Do you agree or disagree that allocating /20s to every requestor who
can justify an initial assignment is irresponsible?

(2) Do you agree or disagree that RIPE should consider establishing a
policy by which an organization can only request a PA allocation if it can
demonstrate the efficient utilization of an existing block of IP address
space (as yet undefined - /22, /21, /20, etc.)?

(3) Do you agree or disagree that RIPE should implement a PI assignment
policy establishing an assignment model consistent with the principles
established for such assignments in RFC 2050 (25% utilization immediately,
50% utilization within one year)?

[BTW, the NCC hasn't proposed (3). I'm just throwing it out there.]

(4) Should organizations which are using a relatively small amount of
address space be required to renumber in order to recieve a PA allocation
from RIPE?

/david