[arin-ppml] Final draft of 2010-13 for Atlanta (Rev 1.55)

[Owen DeLong]

On Sep 30, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:

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> On 9/30/10 10:12 AM, "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
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>>> On 9/30/10 9:44 AM, "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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>>> Ah, no. The theoretical /25's and /18's would have been approved based on
>>> need. An equal reduction for all bolsters the equity of needs based
>>> allocations. Capping the reduction on the low side is the Robin Hood
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>> Look, at some low side point, one has to cap the reduction. If nothing else,
>> it absolutely impossible to hand out a fractional /32.
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> Which I've demonstrated is financially objectionable especially considering
> that the cost of IPv4 address space beyond depletion is an unknown variable.
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>> I think it is impractical to hand out less than a /28.
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>> I'll point out that you were the one in our earlier discussions who wanted to
>> raise this threshold rather than lower it.
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> We're only discussing these low thresholds because that is how the current
> proposal is written and that's what we are discussing. The minimum
> allocation should be higher and that the reservation system mechanics are
> broken with respect to fairness.
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We're going in circles now. Making the minimums higher breaks fairness in
other ways.

You haven't offered a change to the mechanics that would change the
facts presented above or the fairness of the outcome, so, I'm not sure
what you have in mind.

Owen