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

[Martin Hannigan]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 9/2/14, 12:57, Derek Calanchini wrote:
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>> If you had to guess, how long would you think before I can order up a
>> /22 (4 class C's)  from Arin?  I am trying to decide if I need to fudge
>> the truth and order up a /21
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> Not to be too pedantic, but you probably won't be able to get 4 class C's
> even if this policy goes through. Classful-ness really need to die since
> classless is all the rage now.
>
> Also a /22 minimum is already in policy if you're multihomed.
>

So we should strand fragments and fail to adapt to the changing world
and rely on policy relics (multi homing) to deny people access to
address space?

This doesn't make sense to me.

Best,

-M<