[ppml] APNIC policy proposal to create a regulated market in IPv4 addresses

[Scott Leibrand]

Paul Vixie wrote:
>>> Also, does anyone believe ISPs are going to remove the filters that  
>>> implicitly limit the length of a usable (for the purposes of highest  
>>> likelihood of global routability) IPv4 prefix to a /24?  If so, why?
>>>       
>> I hope not, and if subdivision/deaggregation gets bad enough we will see 
>> filters tighten.  In a worst case scenario we filter at /20 across
>> the board  and anyone using longer prefix gets to move.
>>     
>
> what would you have f.root-servers.org do in that case?  our IPv4 address
> is in a /24, and our IPv6 address is in a /48.  even apart from the question
> of how long it takes to renumber a root name server, where would you like us
> to move?  we have other address blocks but those other blocks aren't anycast.
>   

For that and many other reasons, it would make much more sense (in the 
worst case scenario) for everyone to filter according to the minimum 
allocation size for each IPv4 /8, as published by the RIRs (i.e. 
http://www.arin.net/reference/ip_blocks.html and 
http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html).


-Scott