[ppml] Returning blocks of IP space

[John M. Brown]

Providing a list in real time vs. providing a list
that is manually reviewed are two different things.

Its easy to allocate from NEW inventory, you ignore 
old inventory.  


If my memory of the staff and its skill sets is
correct, the number of operationally experienced
(as in running a backbone) is extreemly limited.
A recent ARIN engineering employee also made this
statement to me at a recent technical meeting.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlewis at lewis.org [mailto:jlewis at lewis.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:27 AM
> To: John M. Brown
> Cc: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [ppml] Returning blocks of IP space
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, John M. Brown wrote:
> 
> > > 2. ARIN should publish a directory, updated daily, that 
> identifies 
> > > all unallocated ARIN space at the largest aggregate level. This 
> > > should be published in a form that would allow ISPs to use the 
> > > directory (or a mirror of it) to configure their routers 
> to filter 
> > > these addresses
> > from
> > > the Interner. Presumably this would be published as a BGP feed.
> > 
> > Strongly disagree with this.
> > 
> > 1.  ARIN does not have the technical experience and 
> operational clue 
> > to maintain this list.
> 
> That's hard to believe.  Surely ARIN has or can easily 
> produce a list of 
> all IP ranges they're responsible for, and a list of the ranges not 
> currently allocated.  Saying they don't have the experience 
> or clue to 
> maintain such a list implies ARIN is not capable of doing 
> their most basic 
> job (allocation of IP space) since you can't reliably 
> allocate space if 
> you don't know your inventory.
> 
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