[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Depleted IPv4 reserves

[Owen DeLong]

>
> The /24 boundary in IPv4 is much more rigorously enforced and far too
> entrenched *everywhere* for the FTC or even God himself to get it all
> out of there for a few special circumstances. I can announce less  
> than a
> /24 right now. It won't get very far. Who in their right mind is going
> to contact every AS in the world and ask "pretty please, will you
> configure every BGP speaking router you have to accept my /26 because
> I'm special?" Their ISP is going to say "we're announcing it, tough  
> luck
> if the rest of the world won't see it". Who does that help except  
> cause
> mass frustration? And since it's an "IPv6 transition network" the
> uninitiated are going to blame IPv6 as something that doesn't work.

If ARIN starts issuing /26s from a defined block for this purpose, I'm
willing to bet that most of the active AS in the world will catch on to
that fact quickly enough.

Owen