[ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-6 - Abandoned

[Jo Rhett]

On May 23, 2007, at 10:14 PM, David Williamson wrote:
> I really think people who think renumbering is easy don't work for
> ASP-like companies.  There's a few specific challenges that make it a
> thorny problem.  A large amount of embedded addresses in vpns and
> customer-controlled ACLs are just a nightmare, especially when NAT
> isn't an option.

I'm not aware of anyone saying that renumbering is easy.

I personally was suggesting that situations where renumbering is  
difficult are (a) fairly rare and (b) easier for the business to  
identify than ARIN and (c) are the businesses problem to solve, not  
ARIN.

If you run a business that requires large volumes of X, then as said  
business you identify the source of X as a risk and determine how to  
best address that problem.

Most of the comments made in this thread seem to indicate that ARIN  
should be responsible for the businesses dependancy, and that ARIN  
should solve this problem for the business at the detriment of every  
business who must maintain a full routing table on their big iron.  I  
disagreed.

I would also like to point out that ARIN's current policy makes it  
very trivial to qualify under the multihoming requirement, and the  
cost of doing this is already borne by every business who is large  
enough to have this risk, and thus neglible.

-- 
Jo Rhett
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