[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Depleted IPv4 reserves

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Wed Dec 3 17:45:02 EST 2008


michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
>> Who in their right mind 
>> is going to contact every AS in the world and ask "pretty 
>> please, will you configure every BGP speaking router you have 
>> to accept my /26 because I'm special?" 
> 
> For a technical person you seem shockingly unaware of how
> things really work. In fact, ARIN makes an announcement that 
> in this certain /9 block, the minimum allocation size will be
> /26 and ARIN expects to begin allocations from that block soon.
> The announcement will go to all the usual places that ARIN and
> the other RIRs announce when they are opening up a new /8.
> 

I'm shockingly aware that I'm having problems with some networks 
accepting my /22.

~Seth



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