[ppml] Legacy users and ARIN duties

[James Jun]

> 
> If address space is a problem, the very _first_ thing that should happen
> is to slow down the assignment of new resources.  In contrast, ARIN is
> _accelerating_ the delegation process. I'm a little dubious of this
> combination.  

ARIN is accelerating the delegation because IP requests are continuing to go
up higher as more networks join the internet and become multihomed.  It's
not fair for ARIN to discriminate IP assignments with preference to existing
members.

> The conjuction has a lot in common with the effects of
> people trying to hoard up the remaining space, and people at ARIN
> helping them do so.

Interesting theory but there's no proof of that however.  Getting IP
addresses without sufficient justification pursuant to NRPM + RFC2050
details is quite more difficult these days than back during "legacy" days.
Someone can't just get a personal /19 to "hoard up" the remaining space
(with some possible exceptions of brilliant liars).

ARIN is forced to respond to the needs of its serving regional Internet
community, and when more people need their IP blocks for obvious legitimate
reasons, ARIN has no choice but to allocate per guidelines set forth by its
membership.  When IPv4 runs out as a result of this, this is out of our
control.  And yes, ARIN is being "steward" in my opinion, by beginning to
market IPv6 adoption and putting efforts to make it easier on people to
obtain IPv6 block.  I haven't seen your 10-year sliding plan but I would be
happy to review when it's submitted in proper format through IRPEP process.


> Bechtel just returned a Billion dollars
> to Boston/MA/Feds for their BigDig engineering and construction
> failures. 

That's not true.  The legal proceeding and negotiations are still ongoing
and the settlement figure for Central Artery/Tunnel Project between Bechtel
Parsons Brinkerhoff (BPB) and plaintiffs is not finalized.

Neither BPB nor involved contractors (Modern Continental Construction Co.
and Jay Cashman) have so far completed settlement with the state/local
gov'ts to close the case regarding 2004 water leak/slurry wall breach
incident at C11A1-C17A1 contract interface area under Atlantic Avenue
(I-93).  Then there is also the ceiling collapse of I-90 EBD tunnel under D
Street in South Boston which is also not completed in reaching a settlement
agreement.  Lawyers are scrambling to figure out how much BPB should be
responsible in paying for, and how much others including Gannet Flemming
(the section design consultant for C04A2 contract area where ceiling
collapsed) should pay for -- this issue is far from being settled at this
point in time.

The only contractor which finalized its settlement with the respective state
and federal governments regarding its performance is Aggregate Industries.
Aggregate agreed to pay $50 million (in exchange for not being debarred from
the state for highway construction projects) for supplying substandard
concrete to the project.


> I think an abrupt 'oops we're out of space' is going to
> result in some very definite legal challenges to ARIN and its
> management.

Some of us could call that "frivolous lawsuit."  I think an abrupt "oops
we're out of space" issue is more appropriate to be called a case of "force
majeure."


James