On 25/07/2009 20:29, Per Heldal wrote:
RIR policies is not the right tool to regulate ISP behaviour.
I'm not attempting to cast judgement on this either way. All I'm saying is that because internet businesses recognise that PI addresses provide tangible business advantages, they will attempt to obtain them by any reasonable means at their disposal. If this means lying on an application form, then they will do this. I believe this to be harmful to the RIPE community. To get a handle on the problem, here are the PI assignment stats for the past couple of years:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2009/msg00267....
Since 2005-01-01, 128 assignments were made of less than /24 and 3934 of exactly /24. These figures do not look to me like the results of 3934 honest assignment application forms. Turning this around, if the minimum PI assignment size were increased from /32 to /24, there would have been 23k extra PI addresses out of 5493760 total PI addresses assigned between 2005-01-01 and 2009-05. That's about 0.4%. Nick