[members-discuss] [address-policy-wg] RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2016 Discussion

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:08:27PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>Today's figures from delegated-ripencc-latest and the ripedb show:
>
>	- 26768 ASNs assigned
>	- 7165 LIRs with ASNs
>	- 6245 with a single ASN assigned
>	- 649 with 2 ASNs
>
>Looking at these numbers, even if a quota figure were set as low as 2 ASNs
>per LIR, that's still over 25% of all ASNs for which there is no reason to
>return if they're unused.  This is not going to encourage
>efficient garbage collection.

Erm. 25% of all *currently assigned* ASNs, whatever that may
signify. 2ASN/LIR is ~0.0007% of *all* ASNs (assuming 9k LIRs)

>As a separate issue, free asn quotas for LIRs are not really
>within the spirit of RIPE community policy for PI resource
>assignment.

Currently all ASN are "free", so how does this proposal make it
worse? 

rgds,
Sascha Luck