Criteria for initial PA Allocation

Hi,

seems I got carried away :-)

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:37:40PM +0200, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
> | Much more important than working out the details of what criteria qualify
> | you for a /22 would be what criteria will cause RIPE to revoke the /22 it
> | has assigned.
> 
> The proposal was that in order to qualify for a "standard /20 PA block"
> you would need to
> 
> >- Demonstrated efficient utilisation of a /xx (/22?)
> >Or
> >- Immediate need for a /xx (/22?)
> >
> >- Agree to renumber (Required? Recommended?)
> 
> So the proposal is that in order to get a /20 you need to provide
> documentation that you need some percentage of that adress space (25%).

This is similar to the ARIN policy.

I think it makes sense - if you are not able to fill a /22, your network
is "smallish".  So using PA space and renumbering when changing ISPs is 
not *that* hard, if done properly (DHCP, DNS, no hard-coded IP addresses 
anywhere).

If you're actually doing LIR work (that is: hand out addresses to third
parties), documenting this should also be possible.

> While I agree that it at some point would be interesting to discuss how to
> be more agressive reclaiming address space, I would urge the WG to focus on
> the proposal from RIPE NCC:
> - should we introduce a creiteria for PA allocations
> - if so what should that criteria be.

I'm not so sure on the "should we", but if yes, the above criteria are
a good thing.

Gert Doering
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