[arin-ppml] Support proposal 2010-2: /24 end-user assignments

[Milton L Mueller]

Bill,
I have a question about the anticipated time horizon for the beneficial effects of 2010-2.  This policy is about cleaning up the ipv4 space by consolidating smaller assignments for multihomers and involves returning and in some cases renumbering. For renumbering cases a one-year cycle of dual assignments is involved. The question: how many years do you think it would take for this policy to have an appreciable effect on aggregation? And do you think would that effect be one of slowing table growth or actually reducing its size? Please note: I am not questioning the beneficial effects, just interested in their anticipated magnitude and the speed with which they would happen.

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of William Herrin
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:05 PM
> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: [arin-ppml] Support proposal 2010-2: /24 end-user assignments
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Yesteryear's attempt to restrain the mess the IPv4 BGP table has
> become by setting RIR minimums to /19 or /20 within particular /8's
> utterly failed, largely because small multihomed end users had no
> choice but to get /24's from their ISP -- in the middle of the
> restricted /8's. Though late in the day, proposal 2010-2 largely
> corrects this grave mistake for new assignments -without- expanding
> who can introduce BGP routes into the table or how many IP addresses
> anyone qualifies for. It is a major step forward and I strongly
> encourage you to stand in support of it at the ARIN meeting next
> Monday.
> 
> For your reference: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2010_2.html
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>