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<div>On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Steven Ryerse <<a href="mailto:SRyerse@eclipse-networks.com">SRyerse@eclipse-networks.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">It means that allocations should be made by a combination of the size of the organization and the size of their network and maybe the total size of their current allocations.
There should</span> <i style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">never</i> <span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">be a time when the allocation by Arin is zero.
Arin’s mission is to allocate - and it isn’t to not allocate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">We run a small data center and we run BGP and should easily be able to qualify for a /22 (which I believe is the current minimum block size Arin allocates per current
policy) and maybe even qualify for a /21. ... We were denied a /22 allocation – the minimum size this “community” has decided to allocate - because of “policy” </span></div>
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<div>This is why it is important to remember that such a practice originated even before </div>
<div>ARIN's formation, and it is not about conservation of address space as much as it </div>
<div>is about encouraging routing aggregation by making use of hierarchical addressing </div>
<div>(as described in the following text from RFC 2050, November 1996) - </div>
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<div>" ISPs who exchange routing information with other ISPs at multiple
<div> locations and operate without default routing may request space</div>
<div> directly from the regional registry in its geographical area. ...</div>
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<div> To facilitate hierarchical addressing, implemented using Classless</div>
<div> Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), all other ISPs should request address</div>
<div> space directly from its upstream provider. "</div>
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<div>Whether such a practice is still relevant certainly should be discussed by the community, </div>
<div>but encouraging use of address space from the upstream provider has been fundamental </div>
<div>principle of the Internet Registry System since inception. ARIN reflects this for IPv4 </div>
<div>in NRPM 4.1.1 (General Principles/Routability) and in the initial ISP allocation policy.</div>
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<div>FYI,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
<div>President and CEO</div>
<div>ARIN</div>
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