There needs to be a limit on how long this is going to take. Best,
Martin On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, John Curran <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Jimmy Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:08 PM, ARIN <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have the rationale for the sudden removal of 4.6 and 4.7? > > There doesn't appear to have been any policy discussion surrounding > them, so the action to suspend appears to be surprising, unwarranted, and > contrary to the last known public consensus surrounding the addition of > those policies. \\ > > > Jimmy - > > Two relevant points - > > 1) These policies have been very sparingly used, and not at all used in > recent years (we > haven't approved an amnesty request from 2004 on. We last approved > an aggregation > request in 2008 - 4 aggregation requests in 2008, 2 in 2007, and one > each in 2006 and > 2005.) > > 2) The issue is that theoretically any organization with multiple > blocks could come in and > ask for a single block as large as the sum of all the previously > issue blocks. At this time, > given the space that has been issued to date, such a request could > be larger than the > entire remaining IPv4 free pool in the worst case, and while we > would theoretically get > back the existing blocks as they renumber out of them, that could be > a lengthy process > (and would ikely still be significantly smaller than what we issued > them) > > Per ARIN's Policy Development Process, the ARIN Board of Trustees has > the authority to > suspend policy and ask for an ARIN AC recommendation if it receives > credible information > that a policy is flawed in such a way that it may cause significant > problems if it continues to > be followed. I supplied the above information to the ARIN Board with full > belief that the > policy poses the risk of significant problems (contrary to the community's > intent and desire > for these policies) if it remained in force and was exercised at the > present time by any of the > larger service providers in the region. If the folks feel that such use > is appropriate (i.e. a large > provider requesting the remainder of the ARIN IPv4 free pool to renumber > into and thus improve > routing aggregation by a handful of entries), then that should be > discussed when the ARIN AC > sends its recommendation to the PPML mailing list. > > Thanks! > /John > > John Curran > President and CEO > ARIN > > > > >
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