[ppml] Reserved allocation commitments

[Ron da Silva]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
> So, is there any policy that prohibits ARIN from making a commitment that 
> is both time-limited and conditional upon meeting all normal conditions? 
> The net impact of doing this would be to tie up a small amount of reserved 
> IP space for 3-4 months. The amount of IP space affected would be 
> approximately 25% of ARIN's yearly allocations.

Would this impact ARIN's ability to obtain additional address space from
IANA?  I suspect that "reserved in case member foo needs more addresses
sometime later" is not a sufficient demostration of appropriately allocated
address space.

-ron