On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:03 AM, David Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe some form of conservation is applicable for all "number > resources", even ASNs.
Hi David, I don't agree. I'm not the only one. And prior documents on the subject don't extend the concept beyond addresses. > I've provided what I think is a plausible situation where conservation > applied to ASNs could be beneficial. Can you provide a plausible situation > where conservation applied to ASNs could be harmful? Of course. It's harmful during every single ASN assignment. And not just theoretically. Preparing documentation which justifies an ASN assignment is not free. Processing the request and its documentation is not free either. Without a conservation concern, ASN requests are pro-forma. ARIN can streamlining the process: fast and cheap. > A Hypothetical; Is it in the interest of Internet for a bankruptcy trustee > to sell IPv4 addresses to a snow shoe spammer? How is something like this > prevented without a concept of conservation for IPv4? Registration. Conservation doesn't prevent the snow shoe spammer -- his use is technically justified the same way the IP-per-SSL-cert is justified. But he's rather motivated to remain anonymous. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
