[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #alpha: TLD Anycast Allocation Policy

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On 2005-03-23, at 14.39, Joao Damas wrote:
> On 23 Mar, 2005, at 10:36, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
>> I don't see why RIPE need to assign a /32 when the other regions are
>> /48s? I would also like to add that these assignments should be made
>> out of a single block.
>
> What would the problem be with the /32, really? Counting the addresses?

"640k should be enough for anyone" :-) (Although Mr Gates disputes that 
statement ever been said here : 
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15180#fn*). My main concern is that 
this again is contrary to the "conservation" policy which is one of the 
reasons we have RIRs at all...

> Howeverm, the "out of a single block" is the part that really bothers 
> me. Putting supposedly "critical infrastructure" as it is called 
> elsewhere in a block that makes them all share fate in the event of 
> network "optimisations" is still a bad idea.

Well, this can be argued the otherway around as well. We know that ISPs 
filter out previously unused space, and that they are not very active 
in updating those filters when IANA starts allocating out of new 
blocks. Having all in well-known block would limit that.

- - kurtis -

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