[address-policy-wg] 2006-07 Discussion Period extended until 17 January 2007 (First Raise in IPv4 Assignment Window Size)

Hello!

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:02:37PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

> > Several people raised concerns that new LIRs may not have sufficient  
> > experience to make good decisions with a /21 AW. This is a valid  
> > concern but I do not believe a series of incremental AW raises would  
> > provide the most effective support to new LIRs. Instead, I have  
> > modified the proposal so that new LIRs would get a /21 AW six months  
> > after receiving their first allocation. They would need to send in  
> > requests as now until then. This should ensure that the LIRs most in  
> > need of support receive it, while reducing the administrative  
> > overhead for the vast majority of LIRs.
> 
> I like this more than the previous one, but still some questions remain:
> 
>  - what about the AW for existing LIRs?  Will it be auto-raised to /21
>    as well?
> 
>  - what about the AW size *after* the initial raise?  Can it be reduced
>    to less than a /21 - and if yes, under which conditions, and at what
>    time will it grow back?

Some minor questions: why /21?  It is just current minimum allocation size?
If yes, what about changes which possible in future?

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Dmitry Kiselev