On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Gert Doering wrote:
Looks like every enterprise out there would also get a /32.
If they are willing to undergo the necessary paperwork, and pay the yearly fees, yes.
(Which is only different from today insofar as "today the enterprise has to lie to RIPE [or be quite creative in their definition of 'customer'] to get the /32" - look at current allocations where people are wondering how the critera could have been fulfilled)
No, it's very different. Only the biggest enterprises can lie or "find the right words" about the "200 /48 other organizations" rule. For example, explain they have 200 branch offices for which those wouldn't really be separate organizations. With the proposed model, 1-man enterprise could also get a /32. I guess there's practically no way to prevent very big enterprises from getting a /32 under the current policies, if the sites want the space. But we must not extent that to "every enterprise out there". There are way too many of those.
Doesn't look like a good idea at all. While I agree that the "200 customers" rule could maybe use a bit of improvement, I don't think removing it completely is the right fix at all.
So, I'm opposed to the policy change.
I'm wondering what your alternative proposal is, as you don't like the 200-customer rule either.
Don't get me wrong: the current policy is OK to me, but I could accept some amount of rewording. The current proposal is overkill, though. As to the alternative.. we could, for example, decrease the 200-customer limit to (say) 50 or add add some text to describe what we really meant with that (for example, you don't actually need to get 200 v6 customers in 2 years, but that you basically have 200 distinct customers). Some clarification for basically transit-only ISPs could also be done. I think we (as in, the "community", hopefully, "the global community") could find the words to achive this.
If you're worried about a landslide: let's put an (arbitrary) safety margin in there "only 5000 prefixes are handed out, then we stop and re-evaluate policy".
Quite the contrary. If we start with too liberal policy now, we're never (practically) going to change it to be stricter later. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings