[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-127: Shared Transition Space for IPv4 Address Extension

[Mark Smith]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:01:39 -0600
"Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> So that operators in ARIN's region have a reasonable path to NAT444.  No one
> likes NAT444 and we acknowledge that this designated space could be used for
> purposes other than what the reasons that led to this policy proposal, even
> if the policy proposal specified otherwise.  But as Owen said, the operator
> would be shooting themselves in the foot.  By the time they use this space
> for *something else* and then wanted to do NAT444, they would not be able to
> justify a request for IPv4 space for NAT444.  
> 

There's been plenty of foot shooting in the past with private and
non-allocated address space. Why is this time going to be any
different? Giving away more address space with RFC1918's properties
will only provide a level of legitimacy to further foot shooting -
people will ignore what this space is specifically for because by its
nature it can't be policed - I'm guessing the Hamachi people
will start using it straight away since they "lost" 5/8. If this /10
never exists, then whenever people try to shoot themselves in the foot
they'll unavoidably know they're about to do it. Of course you can't
prevent stupidity, but you can make it more obvious that it is
occurring.

> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of George Bonser
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:19 PM
> To: Owen DeLong
> Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-127: Shared Transition Space for IPv4
> Address Extension
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Why should the network come out of ARIN's hide?  If APNIC and
> IETF won't support it, why should ARIN?
> 
> <snip>
> 
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