[147622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: De-bogon not possible via arin policy.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Dec 15 16:38:11 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.v6js27attfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:36:32 -0800
To: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 15, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Ricky Beam wrote:
> Because it's not ARIN's job to clean up someone else's stupid. =20
ARIN's job (well, beyond the world travel, publishing comic books, =
handing out raffle prizes, etc.) is to allocate and register addresses =
according to community-defined documented policies. I had thought new =
allocations are based on demonstrated need. The fact that addresses are =
in use would seem to suggest they're needed. As I've said, I haven't =
been following ARIN's policy discussions -- can you point me to the =
policy that says allocations can be denied because you happened to have =
(demonstrably ill-advisedly) used the wrong bit patterns in setting up =
your network?
Thanks,
-drc
