[address-policy-wg] [policy-announce] 2012-04 New Draft Document Published (PI Assignments from the last /8)

Hi Sascha,

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:30:10PM +0200, Sander Steffann wrote:
>> i can not speak to the intent in the ripe region.  but the principal
>> intent of the final /8 policy in the apnic region was so that *new*
>> entrants could get one small piece of the pie.
>
>This was also the original reasoning here in the RIPE region.

> If so, the letter of the policy contradicts this - there is no mention of only "new" requestors, rather any LIR that can demonstrate a need will be assigned one last /22.
> One could reasonably assume that the intention has then failed in the original policy and is not a valid argument against the proposal...

As I understood the policy, is that it isn't only for new LIR's but there is also a reservation for each current LIR.

5.6 Use of last /8 for PA Allocations
         1.Allocations for LIRs from the last /8
            On application for IPv4 resources LIRs will receive IPv4 addresses according to the following:
        1.LIRs may only receive one allocation from this /8.  The size of the allocation made under this policy will be exactly one /22.

So there is no difference between what a new LIR or a current LIR will receive.
As there is only the final /8 soon, new LIR members will get their /22 and that's it.

The final /8 does however provide sufficient growth (more than double in numbers of LIR members if I recall correctly) for new LIR members.

Regards,
Erik Bais