[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #beta: IPv4-HD-Ratio

On 11-apr-2005, at 10:41, Guido Roeskens wrote:

> we from Bluewin fully support the proposal

> Policy proposal: #beta: IPv4-HD-Ratio
> LIR: ch.bluewindow
> Vote: YES

> Comment:
> ISP's providing access services to many customers face several  
> problems
> - Usage in different PoP's changes;
>   at one time you have many customers in one PoP, at another
>   time in others. You need to supply enough adresses to all PoPs even
>   though they aren't needed all the time.
> - Assymetric usage of pools and redundancy
>   To provide redundancy you overallocate some IP addresses to
>   be able to handle the failure of single devices
>   The pool usage on the devices and device groups are not balanced
> - RFC 3194 is as true for IPv4 as for IPv6
> - consistency between IPv4 and IPv6 policies

What are you proposing? RFC 3194 is a descriptive RFC, it doesn't  
proscribe anything. What kind of HD ratio would you want to apply to  
IPv4 allocations?

Note that the current HD ratio for all IPv4 address space that isn't  
reserved by IANA is 90.45%.