[arin-ppml] Request for Feedback: Draft Policy ARIN-2024-8 Restrict the Largest Initial IPv6 Allocation to /20

[William Herrin]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 11:26 AM Gerry George <george.gerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> I’d argue that a more reasonable approach to this would be to eliminate the
> nibble boundary allocation policy at a certain threshold - (i.e. an organization
> needing two /20s gets a /19, not a /16). This would allow organizations that
> demonstrate that need to still get their allocations, while avoiding large
> amounts of stranded resources that the current policy would impose.

Hi Gerry,

I recall asking for a proponent of shorter-than-/20 to produce a
(fictitious) justification for a /19 that we could evaluate as a group
and reach consensus that yeah, if that request came through backed by
real infrastructure, it was not so wasteful as to be subjectively
offensive. No one took me up on it. If we can't, as a group, imagine
such a large yet reasonable allocation, why should we allow it?

If I didn't ask, I'm asking now.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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