[address-policy-wg] 2008-07 New Policy Proposal (Ensuring efficient use of historical IPv4 resources)

In principle I support this policy as it contributed to declassification
of different address-blocks. Conditions should be the same for any
allocation regardless of when it was made. 

Otoh, it is questionable how efficient this would be. It may be many
ways around it that organisations can use to "hide" legacy allocations.
It also falls in the same pit as every policy that tries to say anything
about the use of previously assigned addresses (reclaiming/transfer
etc). Unless the RIRs are given regulatory powers they can't efficiently
control much beyond how they conduct allocations from the free pool. To
change this we need something like a working rpki infrastructure and
restrictions (or at least a strong recommendation) on registered AS'es
not to announce or accept unsigned prefixes. This is a big conceptual
change for the RIR as they get involved in routing decisions, but I
can't see any other way to implement efficient regulation. It is widely
accepted that there already is a black transfer-market, which proves
that the threat of loosing whois and rdns is not enough big enough a
stick.


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Per Heldal - http://heldal.eml.cc/