[ppml] Policy Proposal: Authentication of Legacy Resources

[Edward Lewis]

Some errata - I was distracted while trying to write my notes...

At 9:37 -0400 7/10/07, Edward Lewis wrote:

>I have strong objection to #2.  In as much as "ARIN does not dictate
>routing policy" how does one detect that a number resource is
>"no-longer in active use?"  The purpose of ARIN is uniqueness, not
>routability.  After first coming to my personal conclusion that there
>is no reliable way to decide whether a number resource is in use
>(e.g., it could be used in a network between two apartments in NYC
>air-gapped from the rest of the world).

...I was going to continue to say that "reclaiming space would be 
quixotic".  But then I noticed you said that the purpose wasn't 
reclaiming space.  I didn't remove enough of the sentence.

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