[address-policy-wg] Easy to remember IP-address

Hay,

Am 29.03.2010 12:58, schrieb Gert Doering:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:41:35PM +0600, Sergey Gotsulyak wrote:
>> Is it possible to modify current Address Policy?
>
> Yes.  RIPE has a well-defined policy development process, which can
> be used for that - it's documented here:
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/pdp.html
>
> Now, there's of course a catch - the PDP takes a while to run through
> (a couple of months at best, some times much longer), and you need
> *consensus* for a proposed policy change to become policy - so you need
> to convince the RIPE community that it's of common interest to change
> this.
>
> Since we're running out of addresses quickly, even if you succeed in
> changing the policy, the subnet containing 2.2.2.2 might already be
> handed out to someone else.  So I wouldn't bet the success of my
> company on the chance of receiving 2.2.2.2 - you might succeed, but
> you might as well not.

or to put it simpler:
If we would have such a policy, all nice vanity addresses would have 
been "sold out" (mind the quotes) by now already anways. And you might 
not have the budget to "buy" a nice address either because it would cost 
a fortune like sex.com or so :-)

But, fortunately, IP addresses are not Domain Names....

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