[ppml] Where to get your address space (Was: on PPML? - was Re: How to get ...)

[Howard, W. Lee]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:jeroen at unfix.org] 
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:28 PM
> To: Howard, W. Lee
> Cc: PPML at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Where to get your address space (Was: on 
> PPML? - was Re: How to get ...)
> 
> Howard, W. Lee wrote:
> > Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > What policy change do you propose?
> 
> In ARIN land no policy changes are required IMHO. 

Excellent!  yea, us!

> As such the oly change that might be considered is maybe 
> removing the distinction between "PA" and "PI", as it is all 
> just address space, and neither of them should be broken up. 

"PA" means "Provider Aggregatable," as in, "Assigned from a 
provider's larger (aggregated) block."  
"PI" means "Provider Independent," as in, "Not aggregated, can
be taken to other providers."  [1]
How do you remove the distinction?

Inferring from the previous paragraphs. . . do you think
all address assignments should be directly from the RIR?


> The problem that I brought to light is only that when a 
> policy here might not be good enough for some situations, 
> folks can go somewhere else and get it there by pushing 
> policy through in that region where people are less 
> conservative or less informed.

What should we do differently?

> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen

[1] You probably know this, but I like to repeat it from time 
to time for people who are new to the conversation.