[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Depleted IPv4 reserves

[David Williamson]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:27:13AM -0500, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net]
> On
> > Behalf Of David Williamson
> > 
> > Some small orgs may
> > need an additional allocation/assignment in order to get through the
> > transition.
> 
> True. But the same applies to any organization. In the proposal, there
> is no clear rationale as to why small orgs should be privileged in this
> end game over large orgs. The proposer needs to clarify their rationale,
> is it based entirely on distributional equity or some other
> consideration? 

Large orgs will also need transition space, yes.  The flip side of that
is that orgs who presently have been assigned more than a /12 in
aggregate can probably come up with transition space without too much
pain.  Someone holding an aggregate /22 probably cannot.

While we're talking about transition, it seems to me that handing out a
/22 to an org wishing to provide a NAT-PT gateway (for example) is a
bit foolish.  We should hand them the space they need, which is
probably a /26 or longer.  That would provide for transitional space
for many more orgs, both existing and new, of any size.  (Before someone
screams about the present unroutability of such long networks, please
read NRPM section 4.1.1.  It's not ARIN's problem - good stewardship of
the number resources is.)

-David