[arin-ppml] Proposal 99 -- IPv4 multihomed end-user minimum to /24

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Tue Oct 27 10:12:41 EDT 2009


On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:

> Owen DeLong wrote:
>> The following proposal has been sent to PPML before.  It is now on  
>> the
>> AC docket.  There
>> was, unfortunately, insufficient time to get it to the Dearborn  
>> meeting
>> for adoption discussion
>> outside of the petition process.
>>
>> At this time, I would like to solicit any additional community  
>> feedback
>> regarding changes that
>> should be made to the proposal before asking the AC to place it on  
>> the
>> next meeting agenda
>> for adoption discussion.
>
> To me, it seems as though there are many places within the proposal
> where the term 'assignment' appears where I would expect the term
> 'allocation'.
>
Allocations are to ISPs.  This proposal is entirely about assignments
to end users and does not modify the policy for allocations to ISPs.

> This is slightly clouding my understanding of the policy proposal.
>
I hope that clarifies.

> If the true intent of the proposer was to use 'assignment' in all  
> cases,
> please forgive me. If the terminology is indeed misrepresented, can  
> that
> be fixed?
>
The true intent of the proposer (me) was to use assignment in all cases
for the reasons clarified above.

Owen




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