[arin-ppml] clarification of Board actions Feb 2 and Mar 18, 2009

[Leo Bicknell]

In a message written on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:13:46PM -0500, Bill Darte wrote:
>    So do you think ARIN needs to ask for all address space to be
>    re-justified, documented and when there is obvious under-utilization
>    they reclaim it?

I think "all" is very much the wrong question to ask.

If someone has made an additional request via ARIN recently (6-24
months, or so) they have been reviewed to some extent.  Going back
and re-justifing space for those folks would be a waste of time for
all involved.

Of what's left, I think it's important to take some common sense
steps.  There's little value to reviewing an amount of space less
than or equal to the minimum allocation size, as if part were
recovered it could not be given back out to others.

That does leave an interesting set of folks.  I think it would be
of value to the ARIN community to do some spot checking.  It's like
the IRS picking out which tax returns to check, doing every single
one in the level of detail makes no sense; but you want to do enough
to get good data on compliance rates.

Truth is, we don't have a good handle on how well a particular
subset of the community is using space.  Perhaps all the space is
used efficiently.  Perhaps almost none of it is.

Back in 2006 when I did some WHOIS research there were 1.2 million
ORG records.

So, to that end, if we throw out people who got space from ARIN in
the last 24 months, and people with allocations less than or equal
to the current minimum, and then did audits on 1 in 1,000 to 1 in
10,000 per year (so, probably between 50-500 audits per year) and
reported on that I think we could accomplish several things:

  - Gain a LOT of knowledge.
  - Greatly increase the incentives for folks to track space properly.
  - Create another form of encouragement for folks to return space they
    aren't using.
  - Increase the perception that resource utilization matters on an
    ongoing basis, not just when you submit an application.

-- 
       Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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