-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear Aled, dear all, On 13/06/2016 17:29, Aled Morris wrote:
On 13 June 2016 at 16:15, Sylvain Vallerot <sylvain.vallerot@opdop.net <mailto:sylvain.vallerot@opdop.net>> wrote:
I agree with this : remaining IPs are not intended to be used as we used to. But they are still meant to be distributed to end users, aren't they ?
RIPE-649 "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region" Section 5.1 Allocations made by the RIPE NCC to LIRs 3. The LIR must confirm it will make assignment(s) from the allocation. ...
It doesn't say who these assignments are to, they could be to the LIR itself for their own use (as it will be in the case of end-users who have become LIRs purely to obtain some "psuedo-PI" address space.)
LIRs being (quite likely) End Users, this is fine. But we definitely cannot assume that all End Users are LIRs, nor make a policy take it for granted. Put in another words we cannot have a policy say that an End User needs to be a LIR to have a chance to get access to the ressource. Allowing future End Users to have a tiny bit of IPv4 to bootstrap means allowing *End Users*, not just those that are LIRs. Right ? I would appreciate a confirmation from the "sitting-ones" that my understanding of the spirit of the last /8 policy is correct on this point because I sometimes doubt it when reading things like proposal 2013-03. Best regards, Sylvain -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iF4EAREIAAYFAlde1AMACgkQJBGsD8mtnRHH4gD/duowiNMLW8a1E1SRuYj3UgBK QczJw7sdCw4bGICrmvEA/AjXyqIkX0xBBxk91zTgbIbVvqsVlEaPBZ/F9bygbaki =ZT3L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----