On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:29:19PM +0200, Per Heldal wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:12:45 +0100 Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> wrote:
Provider independent addressing also puts the balance of negotiating power in the hands of the customer, rather than the provider. If they don't like the pricing, they can just go elsewhere and hey, it's really easy.
RIR policies is not the right tool to regulate ISP behaviour.
right or wrong, its a fact of life. most ISPs set their filters based on the RIR min-allocation.
Market regulators (national and international) should define the requirements and make it mandatory for ISPs to ease the transition from an address-block to another, prevent DNS hostage-taking etc. It's very similar to what's already done to provide number portability in mobile markets.
//per