Re: [ipv6-wg] Re: Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: Andre's guide to fix IPv6

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > "Every LIR gets a /32 (upon request), no questions asked" is a concept
> > that I'm also happy with - as I have said before.  For those that are
> > afraid of the landrush: limit that policy to 5.000 LIRs per region.
> 
> You can't use this kind of arbitrary limit. Doing it this way is seriously
> hot water in terms of anti-trust law. 

It depends on how you handle it.  My line of reasoning is "we don't have
enough experience to judge how things will evolve, but there are some
serious doubts on whether we can handle unreasonably large number of 
BGP routes - so we put a limit in there, and then reconsider in a few
years whether our strategy is useful or not".

I don't really expect the "5000" number to be a serious issue - but if
it turns out to be, policy needs changing, of course. In whatever
direction.

[..]
> Also the current IPv6 policy that only ISPs can get independently routeable
> address space is a fine line into anti-competitive behaviour which may be
> illegal according to EU anti-trust law.

As nobody is preventing you from becoming an ISP, this line of argument
is completly cr**.

Gert Doering
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