On Jul 7, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Scott Leibrand wrote:
Marco Hogewoning wrote:
Let me be more clear. I personally don't think address transfers will save the world, sharing is difficult for most people, let alone if the resource in question is getting more and more scarce.
Maybe it's just me, but transfers with or without money will probably not meet any of the fairness requirements we might come up with and I do think for the sake of it all we might want to try and keep it a level playing field as long as we can to prevent the worst case scenario of a netsplit.
What do you think the important fairness requirements are?
Is it sufficient to make sure that every network with IPv6 PI space can also get a small IPv4 PI block with which to talk to the IPv4 Internet? If so, I think that's pretty straightforward: reserve a / 9 or /10 and give out a maximum of /22 or so, one block per multihomed org.
Or do you think we need to attempt to make larger blocks available on some sort of justified need basis? If so, how do you propose to ration the space to meet your fairness requirements?
I'm thinking about the first option. Give any applicant who can justify the need a small specific block to maintain enough infrastrcture to be reachable from "the other side", think about nameservers, MX hosts and such. Given the potientially huge numbers I don't think we can cater for an access infrastructure, for those you have to go NAT and deploy IPv6. MarcoH