[ipv6-wg] Re: 2010-06 is going to Last Call

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On 1/26/11 9:36 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:40:54PM -0800, David Kessens wrote:
>> We have not received any input so far whether you support draft policy
>> 2010-06. While silence will in general be interpreted as consensus, we
>> prefer to have a good number of statements of support as that will make it
>> unequivocally clear that consensus was indeed reached.
> 
> I oppose on grounds of paragraph 2 of "Arguments Opposing the Proposal".
> 
> The only one who needs the assignment size is RIPE NCC when evaluating
> new allocation requests or in audit. At that time, it's easy for the LIR
> to provide this info to NCC for HD ratio evaluation. Following the
> spirit of data protection, we shouldn't put (in a mandatory manner) more
> potentially sensitive data into public databases without a good
> justification for the need to have that data public.
> 
> As a second reason, it allows folks running block lists to again start
> blocking dynamic customer IP prefixes by automatically looking up the
> assignment-size. Of course that makes no sense (as the /xy prefix will
> belong to another customer next day), but as soon as those assignment-size
> attributes will pop up, misguided folks _will_ start using them for
> broken heuristics and cause colateral damage.
> 
> My opposition is solely about the assignment-size attribute being
> mandatory.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 

Hi,
I agree with Daniel's arguments regarding the mandatory and visible
status of the proposed new "assignment-size" attribute.

Regards,
Valeriu.

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