Hi! On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:21:27PM +0400, Gennady Abramov wrote:
This story is about PA/LIR, where (again, in the theory) all is quite simply. No money -> closing contarct (as in terms of it) -> getting back IPs.
According to current IPv4 Address Policy PI address space should be ASSIGNED to END USERS ONLY. ISP usually provide service for some (or many) organizations, i.e. contact info for some ranges may be very different. Although ISP is close to its customers they are different companies - end-users in Policy terms. ISP with PI can't create separate DB records and it is violate section 4.0 of Policy. It is violate item 5 from Your opinion quoted above too. ;)
Since PA have no such disadvantages and have a good scale capability it should be used by ISPs. PI is still good for small/medium *enterprises* which large enough to do multihoming. And, don't forget that you even can do multihoming without PI address space, by multihoming of PA assigment (if LIR permitted it). The only advantage of PI's is that customer doesn't needs to be renumbered if he leaves his primary ISP.
...and does not pay any money! ;) It is major argument for most of PI holders.
Max, how say that fees will be equal? As for me, PI/24+ASN should have yearly fee acceptable for most small companies. If they really need it, they will pay for it. Once payments stoped - resources returned and ready to reassignment.
Seems to be very reasonable. For example, as it was a long before.
Once payment stops resources are not returned (as far as my example shows below). See: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/ncc-services-wg/2004/msg00100.ht...
for an example I've been tracking for 5 years now (company bankrupt).
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/membership/alloclist.txt shows the following still: il.doarnet DoarNet Ltd.
19981211 212.77.128/19 ALLOCATED PA
So in theory your idea sounds nice. In practice it doesn't work.
-- Dmitry Kiselev