> On Apr 11, 2016, at 14:38 , John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On Apr 11, 2016, at 12:24 , John Curran <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> Since parties coming to ARIN are distinguishing between these classes of >>> 4-byte ASNs >>> and come back explicitly asking for one ≤65535, are you suggesting that >>> ARIN not hold >>> these lower ones to be able to satisfy such requests? >> >> Yes. >> >> I believe that we, more than any other region, have been lazy in our >> adoption of current internet technologies to the detriment of the internet >> at large. >> >> I believe that continuing to facilitate this is not providing a useful >> service to the internet as a whole. > > Just to be clear, you feel that ARIN registry policy which rapidly depletes > the > lower range of 4-byte ASNs would be technically sound and facilitate fair and > impartial number resource administration?
No. I believe that ARIN registry policy which ignores any previous distinction between ASNs ≤65535 and ASNs ≥65536 is harmful. I believe that a policy which makes no distinction and hands them out as if they were a single pool of 32-bit numbers is in the best interests of the community. At some point there will no longer be available ASNs ≤65535. So be it. That date should neither be accelerated nor decelerated by ARIN policy. > It would be helpful if you could explain how in some detail, given that there > appears to be sufficient number of lower range 4-byte ASNs for those who > require such for their operations, and further that the supply appears to be > sufficient for quite some time (potentially till there is greater acceptance > and far fewer hurdles with the use of higher range 4-byte ASNs…) So far, I haven’t seen so much a requirement as a convenience request for those lower numbers. Owen
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