[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Depleted IPv4 reserves

[Azinger, Marla]

Just because its assigned through ARIN doesn't mean it will be routed.  ARIN has not nor do I foresee them changing their position that they do not guarantee routing and in addition there are other factors involved.  It's not as simple as networks "catching on".  Time will tell what really gives way and what doesn't.

My 2 cents
Marla Azinger
Frontier Communications

-----Original Message-----
From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Owen DeLong
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:33 AM
To: Seth Mattinen
Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Depleted IPv4 reserves

>
> 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

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