<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 27, 2024, at 14:30, David Farmer via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml@arin.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 2:19 PM David Farmer <<a href="mailto:farmer@umn.edu" target="_blank">farmer@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> To qualify for a /16 or /20, you must show your need<br>
> using section 6.5.2.1—Size, and 6RD wouldn't qualify,<br>
> at least not in my opinion.<br>
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Hi David,<br>
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John Curran has already said that ARIN would accept a wide range of<br>
esoteric network designs as justifying an initial /16, provided they<br>
were presented in good faith.<br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No, John said that ARIN would engage in a rigorous process with any such request that should ultimately culminate in some approval.</div><div><br></div><div>He did NOT say that such esoteric designs would necessarily culminate in approval of the full requested block size and indeed I am well aware of multiple instances in which ARIN and the applicant have come to solutions that resulted in a much smaller allocation than the original request both in v4 and in v6.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>