[ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-15: Authentication ofLegacyResources

[Keith W. Hare]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of James Hess
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:36 PM
> To: ARIN Address Policy
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-15: Authentication 
> ofLegacyResources
> 
> > My opinion is that this policy proposal puts too much emphasis on
> > authorizing the "stick" approach before the "carrot" approach has
> > received any significant attention and effort.
> >
> 
> The problem with the "carrot" approach, is many legacy 
> assignees already
> believe they have a big juicy carrot.
> 
> A carrot that's much bigger and juicier than anything the 
> community can offer
> them, without eliminating the benefit to the community of 
> getting a legacy
> assignee to sign up in the first place.
> 
> If ARIN formulates a special RSA for them where they get a 
> free waiver from the
> rules and a waiver from the fees... then nothing at all is 
> really accomplished.
> 

>From my point of view, there are two impediments from putting my
company's legacy IPv4 /24 under an ARIN RSA:

1.  I don't know how to do it.
2.  I don't understand what affect the current RSA would have on our
current IPv4 /24 use.

Over the last month, any discussion of doing something to encourage
legacy IPv4 address holders to do somethng gets lost in the chourus of
"let's figure out how to punish them because they haven't done whatever"
where the focus is on the methods to punish, not on the definition of
"whatever".

If you really want me to sign an RSA, add information to the ARIN web
site about how a legacy address holder would go about signing an RSA,
and what effect signing the RSA would have.

Keith