[arin-ppml] An ARIN request to return address space as a service to community?

[John Curran]

Interesting...  I believe that requests like these have been made before
in various forms (e.g. RFC1917/BCP 4) but if folks think that ARIN  
making
such a request is important, I expect it could be done quite easily.

While I agree that it is simple, elegant, and in keeping with the spirit
of "old Internet", is there any chance that the request will also be  
seen
as "quaint" and/or perhaps "out of touch with reality"?  Would that  
matter?

/John
(purely my arrangement of bits
  in ascii-like patterns)


On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Lucy Lynch wrote:

> +1
>
> Simple, elegant, in the spirit of the "old Internet", and
> polite! How often do we see that these days?
>
> - Lucy
>
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Bill Darte wrote:
>
>> My personal opinion is:
>>
>> "The ARIN Board of Trustees on behalf of ARIN and the community at  
>> large
>> requests that as a service to that community, holders of address  
>> space
>> which is available to return, or which they are willing to make
>> available for return, should do so at their earliest convenience.  On
>> behalf of the community that will need these addresses as the  
>> industry
>> transitions to IPv6, ARIN thanks you."
>>
>> bd