[arin-ppml] ARIN-2011-5: Shared Transition Space for IPv4 Address Extension - Last Call

[Jimmy Hess]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Scott Leibrand <scottleibrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:25 PM, "George, Wes E IV [NTK]"
> <Wesley.E.George at sprint.com> wrote:

> Given the state of the various free pools, I'm pretty sure that we
> won't have a /10 free if this proposal waits until Philadelphia.
> Given that possibility, how do you think we should proceed?  I'm
> leaning towards adopting this proposal now, and then following it up
> with another proposal to require that service providers use this (or
> RFC1918) space when appropriate and technically feasible, rather than

I support adopting this proposal now,  while it is still possible to
allocate the /10.
Even in the absence of policy to  "use this (or RFC1918 space) when appropriate
and technically feasible".

That will begin to happen with the /10 reserved,  due to mathematical contraints
applying to ISPs that need IP addresses, especially when the free pool becomes
exhausted; using RFC1918 or /10 space becomes a more reliably,
inexpensively  available option  than trying to find sources of
sufficient global unique
IPv4 addresses available by 8.3 transfer.


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-JH