[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-18: Simplifying Minimum Allocations and Assignments

[John Santos]

I agree with Seth.  Oppose ARIN-2014-18.



On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Seth Mattinen wrote:

> On 7/23/14, 7:58, ARIN wrote:
> > On 17 July 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-210
> > Simplifying Minimum Allocations and Assignments" as a Draft Policy.
> >
> > Draft Policy ARIN-2014-18 is below and can be found at:
> > https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2014_18.html
> >
> > You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft
> > Policy 2014-18 on the Public Policy Mailing List.
> >
> > The AC will evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance
> > of this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource
> > Policy as stated in the PDP. Specifically, these principles are:
> >
> >    * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
> >    * Technically Sound
> >    * Supported by the Community
> >
> > The ARIN Policy Development Process (PDP) can be found at:
> > https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
> >
> > Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
> > https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Communications and Member Services
> > American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
> >
> >
> > ## * ##
> >
> >
> > Draft Policy ARIN-2014-18
> > Simplifying Minimum Allocations and Assignments
> 
> 
> I completely oppose this policy.
> 
> If an org of any size it too lazy or ineffective to bother with planning 
> to justify a /24 then they can get a /29 or whatever from an ISP that 
> doesn't need justification. They don't need IP space from ARIN.
> 
> Justifying a /24 is a very low bar. Either do it or go home.
> 
> ~Seth

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John Santos
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