John, It is still a non-issue as they're only going to get a 3 month supply, which pales in comparison to the space they actually have available. The administrative overhead of making this request is highly prohibitive.
Thanks, Jef On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:44 AM, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 14, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Jeffrey Lyon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It applies to all but is of zero benefit to large orgs with contiguous > space. This idea that it allows big orgs to horde space is a red herring. > > Jeffrey - > > For sake of argument, imagine a large ISP which over the course of time > has > ended up with a /8, two /16, and a /14 IPv4 blocks (with the /14 being the > most > recently issued block because of nearly full utilization of all prior > blocks at the > time.) > > Under present policy, the ISP cannot request address space until they have > brought the utilization of the most recently issued block (the /14) up to > 80%. > > Under the proposed policy, the ISP is immediately eligible to request > space, > since their aggregate utilization (even with a completely unused /14) is > going > to be very high (potentially as much as 97% due to the fully-used /8 > block.) > > The proposed policy allows organizations to request space so long as their > aggregate utilization is higher than 80%, and this means many existing > organization with large IPv4 holdings will suddenly qualify to receive an > additional allocation if they choose to request it. Whether that is > desirable > or not is a matter for the community to decide. > > FYI, > /John > > John Curran > President and CEO > ARIN > > -- Jeffrey A. Lyon, CISSP-ISSMP Fellow, Black Lotus Communications mobile: (757) 304-0668 | gtalk: [email protected] | skype: blacklotus.net _______________________________________________ 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.
