Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering (PIER)

In the face of the "address ownership" vs. "address lending" debate, it is clear that renumbering may become a critical issue in the late 1990s. Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering (PIER) is a working group of the IETF charged with the task of developing a renumbering strategy.

RFC 1916 is a request by PIER for the Internet community to provide assistance in the development of a series of documents describing how an organization might proceed to renumber its network. The ultimate goal of these documents is to provide education and practical experience to the Internet community.

Market-Based Allocation of IP Address Blocks
An Internet draft ,"Suggestions for Market-Based Allocation of IP Address Blocks" <draft-ietf-cidrd-blocks-00.txt>, is a proposal to make IPv4 address assignments transferable and condones the exchange of money as part of the transfer procedure. It suggests that the Internet community embrace the profit motive as an incentive to motivate organizations to act in ways that will improve resource use. This proposal goes hand-in-hand with another proposal to introduce financial incentives for route aggregation (i.e., have ISPs levy a charge for each route advertised). The idea is to move the decisions regarding scarce resources from a political atmosphere to a financial environment which is better suited to deal with scarcity.

Keeping Current on Internet Addressing Issues

General Internet Information

Internet Monthly Reports discuss the accomplishments, milestones, and problems discovered on the Internet. They are available from: http://info.internet.isi.edu/1/in-notes/imr

Minutes of the most recent IETF Proceedings are available from: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/proceedings/directory.html

Information about the size and content of the Internet routing table is available on the Merit Web pages: http://www.ra.net/~ra/statistics/routes.html

CIDR Deployment (CIDRD)
For general information about the CIDRD working group of the IETF and its charter: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/html.charters/cidrd-charter.html

To subscribe to the CIDRD mailing list: cidrd-request@iepg.org

Internet Drafts published by the CIDRD working group are available from: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/ids.by.wg/cidrd.html

Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering (PIER)
General information about the PIER working group of the IETF and its charter is available from:http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/html.charters/pier-charter.html

To subscribe to the PIER mailing list: pier-request@isi.edu

Papers developed by PIER are available from: http://www.isi.edu:80/div7/pier/