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

[John Santos]

I think there definitely needs to be an upper limit and /16 may be too much, but 
I haven't seen any sort of justification for more than /20, only that one 
unknown party has succeeded in getting ARIN to allocate a /16.  Maybe it is 
perfectly reasonable, or maybe not.  I don't know the use case, and I don't 
think anyone else here does or if they do, they haven't described it.

If the use case is just "I want it", then I want to get a /0, and my 
justification is "I want to own the Internet."


On 6/27/2024 2:12 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 2:16 PM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2024, at 06:55, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>>> Folks seeking a /16 are doing it with paperwork tigers.
>>
>> Are there “folks seeking a /16”?
> 
> I know of no imminent plague of unreasonable IPv6 requests. But if one
> organization will do it then two will and if two will then it's hard
> to say where it'll stop.
> 
> What I don't want is for us to see these unreasonable allocations and
> decide we need to tighten the criteria and make the paperwork more of
> a hassle. I'd rather set the cap lower and if someone wants to pay the
> cost of being in the top category under the cap then so be it.
> 
> Implicit in my argument is, of course, that the /16 allocation ARIN
> made was unreasonable, the product of a paperwork tiger divorced from
> genuine use. Convince me I'm wrong if you can.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
> 
> 
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