On Apr 4, 2014, at 11:21 AM, David Huberman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Today, however, RFC2050 has been deprecated by RFC7020. RFC7020 > lays out three primary goals: > - Allocation Pool Management > - Hierarchical Allocation > - Registry Accuracy > ... > That's why I advocate removing needs-basis from transfers in a post- > exhaustion world. There's no pool to manage[1], so the only OFFICIAL > mandate ARIN has from the network operator community is to run an > accurate registry. Be very careful, David, in referring to RFC7020 as a mandate from the network operator community... it would be best characterized simply as a document which has undergone IETF review. Note that there are at least as frequent cries about the lack of operators at IETF as there are about lack of operators in RIR activities... > When this community -- the ARIN policy making community -- makes > rules (and takes on an attitude) that is beyond the mandate of the > governing RFCs, To be clear - RFC 7020 is a cleanup of RFC 2050 to remove the embedded (and obsolete) 1996-era IPv4 allocation policy within the document, leaving a clearer description of the existing Internet number registry system. The absence of policy is intentional, but that is not expressing a constraint on policy creation, it is done with the explicit recognition that "The RIRs also conduct regional number policy development used in the administration of the number resources for which they are responsible." > I advocate the principles of RFC7020, and in doing so, beg this community > to only make rules which conform to the spirit of IETF drafts. To the extent that the community develops policy which is applicable in administration of number resources in the region, such policy conforms to the spirit of RFC 7020. Despite the above, I agree that folks should think carefully about the need for any given policy-based restriction, as number resource policy can have real-world impacts on other organizations which are as great or greater than any perceived benefit that might result. If there is an aspect of number resource policy that is needed because its absence will result in harm to your organization, then it is important to speak up and see if there are others who feel similarly with overall consensus to create policy... In cases where the harm is not apparent, there is no need for creation or continuance of policy, since (in agreement with David) the policy is supposed to serve the community, not the other way around. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN _______________________________________________ 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.
