[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2024-5: Rewrite of NRPM Section 4.4 Micro-Allocation

[Bill Woodcock]

> On May 29, 2024, at 07:22, Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:
> There’s no advantage to ARIN policy by adding this constraint. It does not in any way improve ARIN’s ability to offer service to its members and it creates a situation where technological advances have a relatively high likelihood of rendering policy obsolete faster than it can be updated.

Exactly.  This is the entire point of the principle of technology-neutral regulation.  You don’t have to keep going back and updating it all the time, and you don’t have to deal with artificial friction caused by natural progress.

> That doesn’t seem like a good thing IMHO and unless you can offer a justification for it beyond “It’s what Open-IX says”

Indeed. 

                                -Bill

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