[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-167 Removal of Renumbering Requirement for Small Multihomers

[William Herrin]

On 4/30/12, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> ARIN-prop-167 Removal of Renumbering Requirement for Small Multihomers
>
> Policy statement:
>
> Remove the entire subsection 4.3.6.2 "Additional Assignments for Small
> Multihomers".

Opposed.

Prefixes announced into BGP are expensive and everybody except the
originator bears the cost. For a decade limits were placed at /20 or
/22 in order to indirectly suppress the route count.

The policy which finally allowed access to /24's balanced this need by
requiring such /24's to be returned in order to get more addresses. It
was well understood that end users initially receiving a /24 would
encounter the grave difficulties associated with renumbering when
their address needs grew. This compromise was deemed better than
freezing them out of ARIN addresses entirely until they reached the
larger threshold size.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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