Hi, On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:52:50PM -0800, CJ Wittbrodt wrote:
[ utilization as criteria ]
Maybe we should look at the people you refer to as wanting to be "in" and figure out what distinguishes them from just some end user who should have a /48 from their upstream...?
One of thereally problematic ones are research networks that serve a number of universities. Like "50 universities". Each university is a site, and gets a /48. So this whole network has a need for about 50 /48s, and will never be able to meet the 776 /48s criteria in the last draft. On the other hand, the actual IP address usage will most likely be much higher than the average, due to /48s being given to LARGE sites. So using numbers of /48s as criteria will always be either "too high" or "too low to have an effect". I think one criteria that I would agree to is "some entity that gives /48s to other entities" (focussing on that aspect of an ISP/LIR). Now how to prove that? On the other hand, if someone really *wants* "PI" space, they can easily cheat against this rule (found a separate organization that will "assign /48s to the other company" and thus fulfills the criteria - or just claim "we're going to provide ISP services for our customers as well", which then accidentially never happens). 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