[57590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dealing with ARIN.. my experiences & tips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Apr 14 17:28:55 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Jeff McAdams" <jeffm@iglou.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:20:13 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Jeff McAdams" <jeffm@iglou.com>
> As for some specific policy points that I think are bogus. ... but
specific
> situations, such as a desire to renumber out of PA space, should be
> considered much more strongly than it is currently.
Let me throw in one policy I've been wanting for years, which would fix
most/all of Jeff's problems:
RIRs should allow a member to voluntarily renumber several disparate
allocations into a single prefix. The original allocations would be forfeit
after a reasonable renumbering period, e.g. 6 months. If the member has at
least one PI allocation, they should be allowed to combine it with PA
allocations into a new, larger PI allocation.
More importantly, a quick study in logic shows there should be no
requirement for the existing space to meet RFC2050 requirements -- the space
is already allocated. After the renumbering period there's no net damage to
the IPv4 "shortage" since similar amounts of space would be assigned, but it
would be a great help to the global routing system.
S
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