[address-policy-wg] RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure

>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:15:11PM +0100, Andreas Bäß/Denic wrote:
>> Request For An IPv4/IPv6 Policy Allowing Assignments 
>> For Network Critical Infrastructure
>I strictly oppose anything that has "Assignments For Network Critical 
>Infrastructure" in its title.

I think you are wrong here. The important part of this proposal is
the critical infrastructure. Anycast is a technical solution and
it can be used for unimportant things as well.

>NB: the other 3 RIR's "critical infrastructure" policies are just broken 
>by design - what's special about ARIN's or ICANN's network, as opposed to
>the network that runs google.com?  I'd say Google is much more critical
>to the average network user...

DNS services are critical infrastructure, especially top level domain 
services.
You might argue that it would be better for all top level domains to pool
their resources and share the same anycast architecture and I would 
probably
agree with you. But I believe that the .de DNS service is far more 
important
than Google's search engine because if the .de service is unavailable then
no-one will be able to resolve google.de so the search engine will become
unreachable.

I agree that the other RIR policies may not be a good example for RIPE to
follow. Sometimes RIPE can do things better.

Personally I would rather have seen DENIC propose a simple policy text and
then explain why. That might be easier to discuss than a request for 
someone
else to write the policy text.

Suggestion... RIPE will allocate /24 blocks from the IPv4 address
              range that was once called "Class C" address space
              for use by services that are part of the Internet's
              critical infrastructure. These blocks are for services
              that will exist for the forseeable future, are used
              freely by many organizations, and are likely to outlive
              the lifetime of the organization currently operating the
              service.

I think that .de nameservice meets this criteria. The .de DNS will exist
forever, anybody can use it without subscribing or registering, and if
DENIC ceased to exist, some other organization would take over the
responsibility of hosting .de.

--Michael Dillon