Criteria for initial PA Allocation

Hiya all,

On Wed, 23 May 2001, David R Huberman wrote:
->If the group feels that we should make distinctions between multi-homed
->requestors and single-homed requestors, that's a discussion we need to
->have.

I do not understand where this perspective comes from. Singlehomed users
should use PA address space. But see below...

As Gert has said, and probably RIPE can confirm, we think nearly all requests
are with the intention of multihoming.

However, there are also "zero-homed" requesters: folks who require addresses
that need to be globally unique but that will never appear in the global
routing table.  An example would be a management network for VPN services (the
VPN users have the right to use all private IP addresses). Extranets might be
another example.

Whatever conclusions we arrive at, we should not prevent small appropriately
sized PI assignments to these folks (I would probably support the withdrawing
of future PI assignments to folks who intend to multihome - and replace them
with a uniform PA Allocation policy).

Cheers
Dave