<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 1:32 PM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">While ARIN has a history of minimum allocation sizes in part dictated by community concerns over routing table growth, that is no longer the case. The current minimums reflect ARIN’s DNS and RPKI based limitations. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>RPKI is all about Internet routing. Though for its legal convenience rather than any consideration for ISPs, ARIN imposes limits on folks' participation in RPKI as well.</div><div><br></div><div>RDNS delegation on off-byte boundaries is a long solved problem. If ARIN's community decided we wanted IPv4 /32 assignments to be allowed, RDNS would not stand in the way.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Another thing to consider is that ARIN policies only apply to those entities receiving resources from ARIN and in some cases by extension to those they grant resources to through reallocation or reassignment. <br>
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People hijacking prefixes, generally, are operating outside of those parameters to begin with, so it’s not really clear to me how such a policy provides any benefit in combatting the situation. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Both of which are excellent things to bring up while discussing the proposal. Neither reasonably contributes to a conclusion that the proposal is out of scope. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I see no way in which it provides anything but additional risk to the organization while failing to offer any actual benefit to the community. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A conclusion I hope the community reaches after a full and fair consideration of the proposal on its merits.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Bill Herrin</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">William Herrin ................ <a href="mailto:herrin@dirtside.com" target="_blank">herrin@dirtside.com</a> <a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" target="_blank">bill@herrin.us</a><br>Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <<a href="http://www.dirtside.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dirtside.com/</a>></div></div></div>