Oppose 2014-14
1) /16 is not "small"
2) The problem the proposal purports to solve hasn't actually been
demonstrated. "ARIN staff [...] is spending scarce staff time on needs
testing of small transfers." Obviously, doing the necessary checking
requires staff time, but is it a significant amount? Is it taking much
longer than it used to? Is it costing ARIN a lot of money in staff
wages and overhead to do these assessments, or is it lost in the noise?
3) This proposal not only eliminates needs testing for qualifying transfers,
but also removes the requirement for the recipient to sign an RSA.
4) Rearranging the IPv4 deck chairs
5) Pie
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, John Springer wrote:
Hi PPML and Randy and Steven,
Subject change and sorry for the top post.
WRT ARIN Draft Policy 2014-14, Removing Needs Test from Small IPv4
Transfers, this started out as "ARIN-prop-204 Removing Needs Test from
Small IPv4 Transfers on 16 April 2014. At the 15 May 2014 ARIN AC
teleconference, the motion to move the proposal to a Draft Policy was
passed unanimously. Prerequisite to this action was agreement among the AC
present that, inter alia, the proposal had a clear problem statement.
It might still.
So whatever other failings 2014-14 may have, a unclear problem statement
would seem, at least by the AC's definition, not to be one of them.
As far as the why, ARIN is a community of often polarized interests. The
majority does not, and equally importantly, should not, automatically get
to quash all things it does not agree with. Obversely, minorities, even
despised ones, have the right to work for incremental change in their
interests and receive a fair hearing. This would appear to include the
right to rational discussion, even if irritation sometimes shows up.
The shepherd's job is made more difficult by a lot of this talking in
code. Clearly this is a beloved behavior, so I won't say cut it out. But.
In the case of 2014-14, I don't know if it is going to be enough to say 'I
don't like pie', or 'I don't like pie because pie sucks', or 'I don't
care. I am never going to like pie', or even 'I am so much smarter than
you, that you don't even know pie'. Please, no one take this personally.
Shepherds are currently contemplating rewriting 2014-14 to accomodate
objections even though some objections more resemble the above. I am not
completely optimistic about either the rectitude or the efficacy of this
move, but am thinking and working on it.
If anyone might care to comment on the following three choices, I
would be grateful:
1) Abandon 2014-14 entirely because... (Don't say pie.)
2) This part of it is clearly wrong because..., do this to fix it.
3) Advance it. I haven't heard any convincing opposition.
TIA and in reverse to everyone for the comments and the courtesies.
John Springer
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John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
781-861-0670 ext 539
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