[ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-15: Authentication ofLegacyResources

[J. R. Westmoreland]

I completely agree with Keith's observations.
In my case, with a /24 address space, the cost amounts to about $0.40/year
per address. That's not bad on the surface. But, it is a heck of a lot more
than the $0.00 that it cost me in the first place. In fact, at that time,
the view was something like: "We have about 16,000,000 /24 blocks. We will
never run out before we move to ipv6." So, it seems to me that there could
be some place where we can all meet in the middle with everyone getting some
of what they want but not all of what they want.

J. R.


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J. R. Westmoreland
Email: jr at jrw.org
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of
> Keith W. Hare
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:32 PM
> To: ARIN Address Policy
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-15: Authentication
> ofLegacyResources
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> > -----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
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