[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2012-5: Removal of Renumbering Requirement for Small Multihomers

[George Herbert]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> There's been a lot of discussion here about this between Seth
> and I. How do others feel about putting in a restriction that subsequent
> non-renumbered requests wait one-year after submitting the prior
> request?
>
> Generally, I oppose the idea of a waiting period as an unnecessary
> inconvenience both to the requestor and to staff which provides little,
> if any benefit to the community. However, if that will help us move the
> policy proposal forward with greater consensus, then I would consider
> it an acceptable tradeoff. I would like to hear more from the community
> about whether such a modification to this proposal would increase or
> decrease your willingness to support it.

I would like a clearer articulation of the objections.

If this does enable "handing out /24s like candy" in some meaningful
way then I oppose it, but I am not so far seeing it.  Unless the
objections are made more clear I would support it as originally
posted.


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com