On 19/01/2015 02:28, Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
Is there someone in this community that feels they should be completely free, no matter how many you have?
we all want a free lunch.
I'd like to offer some more food for thought. These are not realistic suggestions, but I hope they will close the gap between the two debating sides:
How many ASNs can a LIR get using one email or one click on the RIPE portal? My understanding is that even after 2014-03 is implemented, the answer will be one(1).
(End Users, not just LIRs.)
After that email/click, the LIR will go through the Process. I don't think any amount of policy simplification will reduce the work required per Process Instance at both the LIR and the RIR below two minutes. In the crypto(slash)security community this is called the proof-of-work system. [example deleted]
this certainly creates work for the applicant, possibly enough to slow down the process of ASN acquisition. It also creates work for the RIPE NCC and someone needs to pay the RIPE NCC bills both to develop and to operate the system. This cost will be borne by the LIRs and as a LIR, I'm not much keen on funding this sort of thing. Also the proposal doesn't include any sort of garbage collection mechanism. In a situation where we face short-term depletion of the resource, this is important. Nick