<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 22, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>ARIN wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 13 April 2011 and decided to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">send a revised version of the following draft policy to last call:<br></blockquote><br>I remember when policy proposals where abandoned, citing as a factor the complexity in the proposal. I suppose they just were not complex enough.<br><br></div></blockquote>I believe the phrase in those cases was "unnecessary complexity".</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Do we want the general public to be able to read this NRPM thing we are crafting?<br><br></div></blockquote>Yes.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>This proposal does nothing to change a fundamental and longtime ARIN policy defect.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote>Huh?</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>To the extent you can get away with it, profligacy is rewarded.<br><br></div></blockquote>I'd encourage you to explain that statement. First, when it comes to IPv6, I think a</div><div>certain amount of profligacy is a good thing as it will improve aggregation over</div><div>time (or at least reduce disaggregation over time).</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I support the proposal, reservations aside, as currently written, primarily because ISP's are currently the only ones who do not get more space then they can ever use.<br><br>IANA has more v6 than it can use.<br>ARIN has more v6 than it can use.<br>All RiR has more v6 than it can use.<br>End Users are encouraged to be assigned more space then they can ever use in multiple lifetimes.<br><br>ISP's are the only ones that cant even get enough space to meet modest projections of a decade or two out.<br><br></div></blockquote>Which is exactly the problem this proposal seeks to solve.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your support.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>