I would like to take this opportunity to point out that this is a glaring example of where the ARIN Board of Directors is acting to make a policy change without consulting this community before taking action concerning the policy(s). I am not commenting here about the pros or cons of changing these particular policies.
I wish to point out that I definitely do think the board has the power to
suspend these policies or any other policy. If the Board thinks this is
important then they should act - as that is the role of the Board of Directors.
I would also point out that this action by the ARIN Board pretty much deflates
the argument that ARIN’s role is only to implement and facilitate
community-based Internet self-governance that I’ve seen argued in this forum
and in the press by John Curran and others. It is to the ARIN Board &
Management’s credit that they do solicit this community’s input on most policy
changes. However, I think it is important that this community fully understand
that they have chosen to solicit input on policy decisions but are not required
to follow it.
Steven Ryerse
President
100 Ashford Center North, Suite 110, Atlanta, GA 30338
770.656.1460 - Cell
770.399.9099- Office
[Description: Description: Eclipse Networks Logo_small.png]℠ Eclipse Networks,
Inc.
Conquering Complex Networks℠
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of John Curran
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:56 PM
To: Jimmy Hess
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NRPM Policies 4.6 and 4.7 Suspended by ARIN Board
On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Jimmy Hess
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:08 PM, ARIN <[email protected]<mailto:[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
<<inline: image001.jpg>>
_______________________________________________ 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.
