On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:05:50PM -0700, Andrew Dul wrote: > On 9/18/2014 3:21 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > The ARIN community needs to realize that IPv4 is essentially over. > > Continuing to identify new ways to hand out ever smaller crumbs of > > pseudo-free-pool allocations/assignments is not, IMHO, particularly > > positive. > > > > Hence my suggestion that only the IANA returned space be managed under > > 4.10.1 > > > > Taking half of what was reserved for transition and handing it back to > > business as usual is detrimental to the original intent of 4.10 and serves > > a much smaller fraction of the community. > > I wouldn't call the austerity section business as usual. It is a > boot-strap for new organizations or organizations who don't have > allocations/assignments directly from ARIN. This section of the policy > is intended only for organizations with no or small allocations from > ARIN. Other draft policies such as 2014-20 are also working to deal > with the "slow start" issues that will exist after runout with the > current v4 policies. This austerity section of this draft was intended > to address the boot-strap issue in the current v4 policies allowing > organizations to get a block which would then allow them to later get > into the transfer market.
I apologize for not understanding the boot-strap issue you refer to; however, if the intent of the austerity policy is primarily or solely to avoid a problem with the transfer rules, I'd prefer to fix the problem where it lies rather than patching it. Bill. _______________________________________________ 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.
