[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal 123: Reserved Pool for Critical Infrastructure - revised

[Owen DeLong]

On Nov 21, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:

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> On 11/20/10 9:18 PM, "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 3:04 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
>>> Policy Proposal 123: Reserved Pool for Critical Infrastructure
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>>> Policy term: 36 Months from Implementation
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>> Nitpick: For 36 months following implementation.
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>> The other way could be misunderstood to mean "starts 36 months later."
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> Ok.
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>>> Upon receipt of the last /8 that the IANA will allocate to ARIN per the
>>> Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space,
>>> ARIN will place a contiguous /16 in reserve for Critical Infrastructure.
>>> If at the end of the policy term there is unused address space remaining
>>> in this pool, ARIN staff is authorized to utilize this space in a manner
>>> consistent with community expectations.
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>> I'm not sure its necessary to have a contiguous reserve, but I SUPPORT
>> the policy proposal as written anyway.
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> I thought about this and then saw Leo's post. Removing the word contiguous
> should be good enough.
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Actually I would argue that you should rewrite it as:

ARIN will place space totaling the equivalent of a /16 in reserve...

If you just remove the word contiguous, it becomes ambiguous whether
you want a real /16 (contiguous) or space equivalent to a /16 (doesn't
matter if it's contiguous).

Unlike proposal 122 which is dangerous and harmful, I have no
objection to moving this forward and would encourage the board
to consider moving it through the emergency process with the
modification suggested above.

Owen