[arin-ppml] clarification of Board actions Feb 2 and Mar 18, 2009

[Scott Beuker]

I very strongly support Leo's suggestion.

It seems a reasonable assumption that the people for whom
re-justification
of space is the most difficult are the people most likely to be wasting
it.

- Scott

> In a message written on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:13:46PM -0500, Bill
> Darte wrote:
> >    So do you think ARIN needs to ask for all address space to be
> >    re-justified, documented and when there is obvious under-
> utilization
> >    they reclaim it?
> 
> I think "all" is very much the wrong question to ask.
> 
> If someone has made an additional request via ARIN recently (6-24
> months, or so) they have been reviewed to some extent.  Going back and
> re-justifing space for those folks would be a waste of time for all
> involved.
> 
> Of what's left, I think it's important to take some common sense
steps.
> There's little value to reviewing an amount of space less than or
equal
> to the minimum allocation size, as if part were recovered it could not
> be given back out to others.
> 
> That does leave an interesting set of folks.  I think it would be of
> value to the ARIN community to do some spot checking.  It's like the
IRS
> picking out which tax returns to check, doing every single one in the
> level of detail makes no sense; but you want to do enough to get good
> data on compliance rates.
> 
> Truth is, we don't have a good handle on how well a particular subset
of
> the community is using space.  Perhaps all the space is used
> efficiently.  Perhaps almost none of it is.
> 
> Back in 2006 when I did some WHOIS research there were 1.2 million ORG
> records.
> 
> So, to that end, if we throw out people who got space from ARIN in the
> last 24 months, and people with allocations less than or equal to the
> current minimum, and then did audits on 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 10,000 per
> year (so, probably between 50-500 audits per year) and reported on
that
> I think we could accomplish several things:
> 
>   - Gain a LOT of knowledge.
>   - Greatly increase the incentives for folks to track space properly.
>   - Create another form of encouragement for folks to return space
they
>     aren't using.
>   - Increase the perception that resource utilization matters on an
>     ongoing basis, not just when you submit an application.
> 
> --
>        Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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