[arin-ppml] ARIN Advisory Council Thoughts about IPv4 Policies

[Scott Leibrand]

On Wed 5/12/2010 10:58 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:51:54AM -0400, Sweeting, John wrote:
>    
>> With that in mind, the AC would like to advise the community that
>> unless a proposal affecting IPv4 assignments has a compelling benefit
>> for and receives strong initial support from the community the AC
>> will most likely choose to abandon the proposal.
>>      
> This sounds to me, more or less, like the criteria the AC has always
> used to evaluate new policy proposals.
>
> My interpretation is that there has been some attempt to raise the
> bar on new IPv4 assginment proposals, but I really don't understand
> how much the bar has been rasied from this e-mail.

I think we're trying to raise the bar for IPv4 proposals from something 
like "this seems like a reasonable idea with some support and no 
overwhelming opposition" to something more like "this seems like a good 
idea with quite a bit more support than opposition".

-Scott