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

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> I would also be very happy if RIPE would charge enough money to people 
> wanting to do this to make them consider whether they really need it.

Agreed.. but unfortunately, RIRs operate (typically) on a 
cost-recovery basis..

FWIW, I think it makes perfect sense to give each of these their own 
/32.  Arguments about conservation are IMHO bogus when we're talking 
about one-in-4-billion allocations.

That allows people to filter just fine, has better failure modes (as 
Joao pointed out), and does not have the concern Iljitsch noted.

I guess the folks opposed to using /32's are mainly the ones which 
want to inject their own (non-related) /48's and would like the 
operators to drop the "we don't accept anything past /32 or /35 unless 
very well justified" filters.  Which are a good thing, but out of 
scope for discussion on this list.

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