[arin-ppml] Rationale for /22

[Michael K. Smith - Adhost]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wherrin at gmail.com [mailto:wherrin at gmail.com] On Behalf Of William
> Herrin
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:47 AM
> To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> Cc: ARIN PPML
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Rationale for /22
> 
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Michael K. Smith -
> Adhost<mksmith at adhost.com> wrote:
> > That is correct.  When we went to ARIN space, this was in
> >1995 mind you, we went from 6 announced PA blocks to
> >one PI block.  But, we had to keep getting PA blocks until
> > we could justify the block from ARIN.  This happened again
> > in 2000 with another company when we went from 4 PA
> > blocks to one PI block.
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> So, I'm thinking that if we craft a /24 policy, we should probably try
> to preserve the good part of that (that once you got a /20 you had
> only one block that you could announce as an aggregate) while
> eliminating the bad part (that before you could justify a /20 you were
> announcing 6 disaggregate routes). Sound reasonable?
> 
> Regards,
> Bill

I'm up for the challenge if you are.  :-)

Mike