[address-policy-wg] 2013-06 New Policy Proposal (PA/PI Unification IPv6 Address Space)

On 29/10/2013 15:33, Tore Anderson wrote:
> I think it would benefit the proposal's journey through the PDP if it
> tried to do fewer things at once, perhaps by splitting it into multiple
> proposals.

Agreed.

Despite i'm globally ok with the spirit the proposal but I think
having a proposal that meets the "main goal" is not yet granted.

A few things seem problematic to me

Removing the color looks interesting, but to me question is, what
does it bring apart from cosmetics ? From what I read in the proposal
there sitll would be  a difference between End User block and End Site
bloc. Call it (sub)allocated or assign, it is the same difference.

The majors points seems to be that nowadays PI blocks would (a) be
bigger tomorrow and (b) able to be further sub-allocated / assigned
to End Users / Sites. Yes this is the major point since it will give
independance for a lot of companies. But this, only is costs from
the sponsoring LIRs are not a barrier.

However this should lead to an automatic shift to what used to be PI,
since any End User could request a /32 that would be independant
from the LIR there seems to be a risk regarding the aggregation goal
(I refer to old-style routing aggregation).

Next, growing automatic End-User minimum allocation to /32 is going
to be a problem for routing LIRs structure and/or ressource management
since they are supposed to have a IPv6 plan. This /32 frontier standard
might become a problem for the smaller networks routability, leading
everybody to rush to a /32 without having a need for it because of
some operators taking /32 as a new filtering limit.

I did not see any financial consideration here, so LIRs might will
to apply financial pressure of their customers (and as Sponsoring LIRs)
slow the implieds changes.

So I think we lack an impact analysis here, and I wonder about the
impact for LIRs, and impact for Ripe in terms if membership and
workload evolutions.

Sorry if some of these we already discussed, this is just for the
requested feedback, I did'nt have the time to read all the 99 posts
yet.

Best regards,
Sylvain