[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal -- Normalize Free pool and Transfer justification periods

[William Herrin]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams
<ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>> Second, making the ARIN free pool last artificially longer will only further
>> the disconnect between ARIN runout and runout in the rest of the world.
> b. Will only further _what_?

ARIN having a free pool while APNIC does not places political pressure
on ARIN to share. This in turn makes policy decisions about things
like inter-region transfers more difficult.

IMHO, that's a lousy reason to encourage the exhaustion of the ARIN
free pool. But, it is a reason.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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