[address-policy-wg] 2019-02 New Policy Proposal (Reducing IPv4 Allocations to a /24)
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Carlos Friaças
cfriacas at fccn.pt
Thu Feb 7 09:04:19 CET 2019
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Kai 'wusel' Siering wrote: > On 06.02.2019 14:36, garry at nethinks.com wrote: >>> [?] I'd >>> rather hand that /21 as two /22 to two new LIRs instead of eight /24 >>> to eight new LIRs, since a /24 is basically useless anyway. Especially >>> if you have to wait 6 or more months for it. (Of course, /22 (in up to >>> /24 slices) will mean a much longer waiting time, which makes IPv6 >>> just more interessting. Or IPv4 brokers.) >> Why is a /24 useless? > > Sorry for beeing too brief here: From my perspective, becoming an LIR > implies the intend to provide service a lot of customers, and I don't > see how a single /24 would suffice there. That's what I meant with > "basically useless" (from a business point of view). > An organisation can still use the /22 (or a /24) to become independent in terms of addressing from transit suppliers... >> According to the 2019 billing scheme, this is still unchanged, though I >> reckon it does not apply to PA space: >> >> "The separate charge of EUR 50 per Independent Number resource >> assignment will be continued. Independent number resources are: IPv4 and >> IPv6 PI assignments; Anycasting assignments; IPv4 and IPv6 IXP >> assignments;" >> >> So fragmenting the /22 into /24s would not be of consequence to an LIR >> anyway, at least not financially. So strike my argument about that part. > > Well, I'd like to debate whether a charge per /24 block held (so a /16 > counts as 256 blocks) even for PA would "encourage" to return unnused > space, but I doubt this is the place nor would this be approved by the > GM anyway ;) Yup :-) Cheers, Carlos > -kai > > >
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