Hi Terence, Wendy,
prop-085-v001: Eligibility for critical infrastructure assignments from
the final /8
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Authors: Terence Zhang Yinghao zhangyinghao@cnnic.cn
Wendy Zhao Wei <zhaowei@cnnic.cn>
Version: 1
Date: 22 July 2010
- Introduction
This policy proposal seeks to make it possible for critical
infrastructure account holders (such as new ccTLDs or gTLDs) to receive
portable IPv4 assignments from the final /8 space.
In the spirit of the current final /8 policy [1], this proposal still
ensures each account holder is only eligible to receive one single
allocation OR assignment from the final /8 space.
- Summary of the current problem
Currently, critical infrastructure networks such as TLDs (Top Level
Domains) are eligible to receive portable IPv4 assignments under the
critical infrastructure policy [2].
But the current final /8 policy permits only allocations to account
holders to be made. This means that during the final /8 phase, it will
be impossible to make IPv4 addresses assignments to end users under
the critical infrastructure policy.
Why can't the TLDs receive address space under the existing final /8 policy?
Is the problem is that they don't want to become an APNIC account holder?
Surely they could just receive an allocation like everyone else and use
that allocation for their own network infrastructure? (ISPs who are LIRs
do that right now - they don't get a separate assignment to number their
backbone, as far as I know anyway.)
I'm just trying to understand what the actual problem is...
philip
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