[arin-ppml] Revisiting Section 4.4 Micro allocations for C/I

[Martin Hannigan]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:08 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:37 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>>> Suggested Para 2 edited:
>>>
>>> ARIN will place an equivalent of a /14 of IPv4 address space in a
>>> reserve for Critical Infrastructure, as defined in section 4.4.
>>
>> Assumes that each gTLD requires a separate /23 to run nameservers.
>> (many of them will likely be consolidated on the same servers,
>> ala gtld-servers.net containing com+net).
>
> I'm still on the fence but I wonder if someone who can afford to pay..
> how much was it again to ICANN? to get a new TLD can't acquire the IP
> address block they need for an anycast server system on the open
> market.

The registration fee was ~$185,000, plus expenses and then of course
the cost of your capital tied up in the process. I had some similar
thinking while I was considering this. Why have a CI policy at all if
we aren't going to treat them all equal?

>
> Still, it seems like some policy correction here may be in order. If
> this group depletes the pool (which they seem qualified to do) then it
> won't be available for anyone else either.
>

We agree.

Best,

-M<