Eric makes two very important points here but its the overall "rush" that I wonder about. This thing seems to have come up quite suddenly and appears as if it's being implemented as we speak. A program with such far reaching effects should not be taken lightly. One need only look at the state of the domain name system to realize that its what we haven't thought of that will bite us later....
One: How will portable/non-portable address space be effected. Does the mean that if I have non-portable address space, I can charge customers for address space, and if it is portable, they have to pay $2500 per /24 to have it registered to them?
That would not go over well. <G>
Two: If an entity has address space already and does not require more space, do they have to pay the fee or is this going to be grandfather claused? I know with domain names it was not that way, but that is only 50 bucks, $2500 or more could put a lot of business off the net.
Again, this could put an unbearable financial hardship on many companies if not grandfathered...
I guess this will make the routing table size come to a sudden and screaching halt!
Doubtful but it certainly will slow things down. But remember, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in business as well. Robert J. Fehn Sr.,President and CEO Jersey Cape Information Systems Inc. http://www.jerseycape.net
How will portable/non-portable address space be effected. Does the mean that if I have non-portable address space, I can charge customers for address space, and if it is portable, they have to pay $2500 per /24 to have it registered to them?
That would not go over well. <G>
<Warning: the following is not entirely serious> Oh I don't know, a $122m grant for some competition perhaps? Internic currently assigns (effectively) out of a /8. There are several other /8s around that are underutilised. Let's say you run one of these and your network could actually fit in a /10. You renumber (ouch, expensive), then assign the rest of your /8 (49152 class Cs) in a manner similar to Internic, doing your best to assign CIDR friendly blocks etc. etc. to applicants. If you sold them all at $2500 per class C, you'd pocket $122m (enough to pay for any renumbering and the admin of the exercise). Would they get routed? Well you would be assigning blocks of all sizes and if your assignment policy was as good as or better than Internic, why would people want to filter? In fact, if you undercut Internic, you could perhaps even sell class Bs etc. to tier-1s who'd have no reason not to use them. If not, the change from $122m can pay for a pretty decent amount of transit for some proxy aggregation (i.e. you continue to announce the /8 for a while). Perhaps better still, pervert the RIPE model. Sell class /16s out of your /8 to competing subregistries, who can then onsell space at a profit (as smaller bits are more expensive). May be even reinvent pyramid selling: "Look, you have this /n currently, all you have to do is renumber with our $5000 autorenumbering software into our /n-2 and sell the plan and the other /n-2 to 3 organizations for $5000, and you'll have instantly made $10,000! Then sell your old /n using this scheme as well to someone with a /n+2 and make another $5000". Or something. Why do I feel there is a flaw somewhere.... Alex Bligh Xara Networks
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