Comments at the end > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Graham Beneke wrote: > > IPv6 Allocations to Non-Profit Networks > > ---------- > > Many community and non-profit networks exist on the African > continent > > and around the world... Many of these organizations provide the > > services free of charge and do not have any kind of revenue > stream. > > I strongly support this policy. > > This is the model under which the Internet was initially built... IP > addresses were allocated to those who needed them to build Internet > infrastructure, without fees, up until the creation of the RIRs, and a > lot > of work got done during that time. Notably, a lot of the work was done > by > individuals and small organizations that were subsequently squeezed out > of > the industry by large phone companies, for whom the RIR fees were not > an > impediment. > > With IPv4 address scarcity, using fees as one of many ways of managing > distribution of the remaining few resources seems reasonable. Since > IPv6 > addresses aren't scarce, and most organizations will only ever need a > single allocation, I believe that RIRs should make them more readily > and > widely available, in the same way that caused the Internet to grow > successfully in the first place. > > That has to be balanced against the need for continued sufficient > funding > of the RIRs, of course, to manage the critical services of uniqueness, > whois, and the in-addr delegations. > > But, that said, I strongly support this policy. >
The challenge is how to balance the need to do good against those who might want to abuse this policy as a means to get free resources. And also the luck of universal clasification in the region for the intended beneficiaries. A policy already exists to support entities like universities with reduced subscription rates. Can't say whether i would be for or against. I think it needs to be more specific about the eventual benefeciaries. regards _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
