[128617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Aug 13 15:09:35 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:09:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008131410280.81771@joyce.lan>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 13, 2010, at 2:15 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> ...
> 10. ARIN attempts to allocate the /20 to someone else, who is not amused=
.
>=20
> Note that at this point ARIN presumably has no more v4 space left, so a t=
hreat never to allocate more space to A or B isn't very scary. Given its l=
imited practical leverage, ARIN is only effective insofar as its members an=
d customers agree that playing by ARIN's rules is more beneficial than igno=
ring them.
Thank you John for saying this... As noted, ARIN's just trying to administ=
er
the policies that the community has developed. This means that we will rev=
oke
the address space for cases of fraud, and will reissue to one of you to use=
.
Now, if that's not the desired outcome, the policies are subject to change=
=20
via the public policy process. As it is, folks need to expect that they may
receive address space that was revoked as a result of such misuse, or chang=
e
the policies to have ARIN do something else.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
