Thanks for the replies, Andrew!

Yes, that would work.  It was the “not defined in other …” language which lead 
me to mis-read what you intended. :)

David R Huberman
Microsoft Corporation
Principal, Global IP Addressing

From: Andrew Dul [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:22 AM
To: David Huberman; [email protected]; Andrew Dul
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Micro-allocation policy proposal draft

David,

If the last section was changed to...

Other critical infrastructure such as core DNS service providers (e.g. 
ICANN-sanctioned root and ccTLD operators) as well as the RIRs and IANA, may 
receive allocations from ARIN, when operational need can be demonstrated.

Would this alleviate your concerns?

Andrew

On 9/22/2014 11:09 AM, David Huberman wrote:
I apologize – I wish to follow-up on my own post as I hastily composed it.

Many years ago, Randy Bush made a point which resonated me:  we want to avoid 
“golden networks”.  We want to avoid 8.8.8.8 being designated a critical 
internet infrastructure service just because it’s successful.  Its absence 
would not stop the internet from working (in this case, DNS would still resolve 
just fine).  We want to avoid “anycast” being a “golden network”.  Anycast is 
an engineering choice, but its existence within a platform is not mission 
critical.  It just works better that way, maybe, but not more than that.

My stated concern with the new text is it opens to the door to Randy’s golden 
networks.  I’d prefer not to, especially as I think the pre-defined list serves 
us well.

David R Huberman
Microsoft Corporation
Principal, Global IP Addressing

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Huberman
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:05 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; Andrew Dul
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Micro-allocation policy proposal draft


​ This text concerns me:

> Other critical infrastructure which is not defined in other sub-sections of 
> section 4.4,

> may receive allocations from ARIN, when operational need can be demonstrated.



Can you please give us a real-world example?  The pre-defined list of critical 
operators has served us well over 17 years. I've never seen nor heard of 
something that's truly critical to the operation of the internet that isn't in 
this list that has petitioned ARIN and failed.   I'm loathe to change it.



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