[arin-ppml] Unintended Consequence of 2014-17

[Jeffrey Lyon]

Larry,

-17 makes needs testing more fair for smaller organizations. In terms
of larger organizations, it isn't at all practical to have a /8 and
spend even a minute of your day to request something much, much
smaller. That would be like me requesting a /24 right now. I would
never do that :)

I get the sense that some of the community feels I have an ulterior
motive for supporting this proposal given my concurrent support of
something similar to -14.

Thanks, Jeff

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 3:44 PM,  <lar at mwtcorp.net> wrote:
> I must strongly oppose 2014-17
>
> It effectively removes meaningful needs testing for large and very large
> organizations.
> (I know that utilization isn't the only test but it's a major part of need
> testing.)
>
> According to my admittedly hasty and crude calculations:
> If you have in aggregate a /8 of IPv4 and you have 90% of it utilized.
>
> -You could-
>
> request a /16
>
> and before you used a single one of those addresses meet the need
> requirement for another /16 and still
> be over 80% utilization.
>
> Other sizes scale accordingly but the effect is the same greatly favoring
> the large and very large.
>
>
> Larry Ash
> Network Administrator
> Mountain West Telephone
> 123 W 1st St.
> Casper, WY 82601
> Office 307 233-8387
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