The proposal should be abandoned.
- LIRs with smaller address space requirements are penalised in favour
of LIRs with higher address space requirements.
- Are we now saying that prudent IPv4 address space management is less
of a concern for the IPv4 Internet?
- Or is this a plan to deplete the IPv4 address pool as fast as possible
so that everyone is forced over to IPv6 whether they are ready or not? ;-)
Looking at Geoff's numbers which arrived as I started writing this, the
current scheme has an LIR requiring to demonstrate the use of around 50k
addresses in a /16. An HD ratio of 0.96 has that same LIR only needing
to demonstrate the use of around 40k hosts - 20% reduction! Yet an LIR
requiring a /24 sees no change. So we want to worry more about the
distribution of tiny amounts of address space versus huge chunks? Seems
upside down to me.
philip
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Save Vocea said the following on 17/3/06 11:13:
Dear colleagues
APNIC welcomes comments and suggestions on the following policy
proposal:
Status of [prop-020-v001] "Application of the HD ratio to IPv4"
____________________
At the APNIC 21 Policy SIG, there was discussion of the status of
[prop-020-v001] "Application of the HD ratio to IPv4". Below is a
summary of the proposal activity to date:
4 August Posted to Policy SIG mailing list on 4 August 2004.
August 2004 Presented at APNIC 18. No decision
reached, however an LIR survey was requested to
better understand the issues faced by LIRs in trying
to achieve 80 percent utilisation.
February 2005 Presentation at APNIC 19 on development of the LIR
survey.
September 2005 Informational update of LIR survey results at APNIC
20. Discussion continued in Policy SIG mailing list.
March 2006 Discussion about the proposal's status at APNIC 21.
The proposal has been abandoned in ARIN and LACNIC
regions and is in final call in the RIPE region.
As there has not been no decision on this proposal
to date in the APNIC region, it was decided to
return the proposal to the Policy SIG mailing list
for four-week discussion before deciding the
future of the proposal.
This proposal is now being submitted to the Policy SIG mailing list
for a four-week discussion period. At the end of that period, based
on the comments received, the Chair of the Policy SIG will decide
whether the proposal should be abandoned or moved forward.
Proposal details
____________________
[prop-020-v001] is a proposal to use the HD ratio for measurement of
IPv4 utilisation, for the purpose of determining when a given block of
address space should be considered as fully utilised.
References
____________________
Proposal details including full text of proposal, presentations, links
to relevant meeting minutes, and links to mailing list discussions are
available at:
http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-020-v001.html
Kind regards,
Save
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