Hi, On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:54:57PM -0800, CJ Wittbrodt wrote:
Since the events of the recent RIPE working group meeting have not been discussed at either of the other regional policy forums, proposing something here may be somewhat premature.
Uh, I did not mean to "propose anything here". I was just reporting what we discussed at the RIPE meeting, and the consensus that was reached there. As the idea of conservation and very restrictively handling everything is rooted very deeply in all the registry people, I tried to explain *why* this new approach was (and is, I believe) seen as a good thing.
I do not believe, although things never cease to amaze me, that this will reach any sort of consensus within the ARIN region. I am not sure about the APNIC region. Based on some meetings with the European Government Advisory Council (just after the RIPE meeting) it is clear that it is important that we have a global policy. Is there maybe some way that we could come up with a compromise that would reach consensus in all three policy forums? Something other than requiring no justification for a /32?
The RIPE forum discussed alternative ways to justify the /32, and did not come up with anything that would "keep out the bad, but permit the good". Who are the ones that we want to keep out anyway? Why? To achieve what? Please take your time to consider these questions, and then try to find a poliy that will let in only "the right ones". After that, consider what harm could be done by being less restrictive than what we are used to. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71770 (72395) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299