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

[Richard J. Letts]

What Seth said; oppose 2014-18

/RjL

 
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