[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-131: Section 5.0 Legacy Addresses

[Tony Hain]

Taking Owen's point a little further; IPv4 is 'legacy', so it is
redundant...

Tony


> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of Owen DeLong
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 3:31 PM
> To: Martin Hannigan
> Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-131: Section 5.0 Legacy Addresses
> 
> In the spirit of less is more, may I suggest that you remove the word
> Legacy
> from both the title and the sentence.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:54 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us>
> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:02 PM, cja at daydream.com
> <packetgrrl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Martin Hannigan
> <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Do you think that this will suffice?
> >>>>
> >>>> "Upon expiration of the hold period and in the absence of a Global
> >>>> Policy or Globally Coordinated Policy directing otherwise, legacy
> >>>> resources returned to ARIN will be made available for allocation."
> >>>
> >>> I think it should say "made available for allocation or assignment"
> >>
> >> Right. Allocation and assignment are loaded words in ARIN-speak. If
> >> you specify the one but not the other in policy, you restrict the
> >> usage of those addresses. You could also say something like "made
> >> available for registration," without using either of the two loaded
> >> words.
> >
> >
> > In the interest of over simplicity, I think that version 2.0 might be
> > more clear stating:
> >
> > "Legacy IPv4 addresses returned to or recovered by ARIN will be made
> > available for registration within thirty days of their receipt."
> >
> > I agree with you with respect to more words, but in this case, I
> think
> > that less is more.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -M<
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