Speaking only in my role as a member of the community and not in any way 
representing the AC...

I do not support the petition. 

There is always tension on the border between what is in scope of ARIN policy 
as regards running the registry and providing good stewardship of community 
resources vs. interfering in the operations of the internet (e.g. being the 
routing police). 

While ARIN has a history of minimum allocation sizes in part dictated by 
community concerns over routing table growth, that is no longer the case. The 
current minimums reflect ARIN’s DNS and RPKI based limitations. 

Another thing to consider is that ARIN policies only apply to those entities 
receiving resources from ARIN and in some cases by extension to those they 
grant resources to through reallocation or reassignment. 

People hijacking prefixes, generally, are operating outside of those parameters 
to begin with, so it’s not really clear to me how such a policy provides any 
benefit in combatting the situation. 

Instead, it creates an appearance that ARIN has some role as arbiter of the 
routing tables which is not only well outside of ARIN’s mandate, but also 
nearly impossible for ARIN to fulfill. 

I believe the proposal is out of scope, but even if it were somehow considered 
in scope, I see no way in which it provides anything but additional risk to the 
organization while failing to offer any actual benefit to the community. 

Owen


_______________________________________________
ARIN-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:
https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml
Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.

Reply via email to