[1808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Fri Feb 2 09:14:23 1996
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU (Bill Manning)
To: nh@ireland.eu.net (Nick Hilliard)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 06:07:11 -0800 (PST)
Cc: bmanning@ISI.EDU, jon@branch.com, curtis@ans.net, jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu,
G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au, asp@uunet.uu.net, cidrd@iepg.org, iesg@ISI.EDU,
local-ir@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9602021120.aa13636@relay.Ieunet.ie> from "Nick Hilliard" at Feb 2, 96 11:20:33 am
> > for these values. From my limited viewpoint, the only way
> > to recover the space is a voluntary return, based on the
> > original allocation policies.
>
> There must be some mechanism implemented whereby address space will return
> to the IANA after a specified period of time unless otherwise requested by
> the prefix holder.
There were a couple of methods suggested here:
preemptive hijacking -
voluntary return -
periodic fees -
Hijacking has a number of interesting problems
Periodic fees will take a year or more to implement
Voluntary return can be done -now-.
Which method is the least stressfull and has reasonable impact
on the existing routing table crunch?
> > as a technological means to protect a networks internal
> > stability, is presumptious and rude at best and legally
> > indefensable at worst.
>
> How are the InterNIC coping with the new domain name charging scheme? If
> this were successful, a similar scheme might be considered for address
> prefixes. The legal consequences are similar if not quite the same, and
> one is really no more rude or presumptious than the other.
Not quite the same beast. Domain lables are -not- a finite resource.
There are a wide range of viable alternatives to paying the InterNIC
fees.
>
> Nick
>
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--bill
