[address-policy-wg] 2006-05 New Draft Document Published (PI Assignment Size)

Well

I support the proposal

El 14/02/2007, a las 18:41, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet escribió:

> - "...when routing is a major issue for the End User"
>
> there is no definition of "major issue" and there is no indication
> regarding which entity has to qualify or check this statement.

My understand of "major issue" is "when the end user is going to use  
it for routing to/from Internet"
>
> In effect this will open a path to a minimum /24 assignment per site,
> and PI instead of PA.

Not a bad idea. If a end user wants multihoming, he will get it  
(becoming a LIR itself, getting a slice of a PA and announcing it  
independently,etc.: money talks and RIR listen) and probably (I think  
so) this is the least dangerous way to do it. It will increase the  
routing table size like any other but at least this will help to  
preserve some address space.
>
> - when the ISPs decide to NOT route some small address blocks then
> trying to circumvent their configuration and intent by messing around
> with address assignment policies is royally broken. If this is really
> an operational problem then it needs a resolution on the routing  
> plane.

I dont see it as an operational problem. I see it as a business  
problem. Companies want/need multihoming and will get it one way of  
another. We can set up things to do it in the least dangerous way or  
try to oppose it and see how things get worse.
>
> - on a more general note, as long as the minimum assignemt size for  
> customers
> receiving PA is raised to /24, too, this proposal is a real  
> incentive to go
> for PI instead of PA.

I agree with that. I don't see a real reason to assign lower than /24  
to any customer (and assigning less than /24 is a nightmare for  
reverse DNS).

My two cents.
>

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