Dealing with ARIN.. my experiences & tips

Mon Apr 14 22:47:57 UTC 2003

Thus spake "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp at hilander.com>
> --On Monday, April 14, 2003 16:20 -0500 Stephen Sprunk
<stephen at sprunk.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> <http://www.arin.net/policy/2002_6.html>
>
> This proposal will be coming out for final call on ppml at arin.net shortly,
> slightly modified to address concerns raised on the mailing list and at
the
> public policy meeting last week in Memphis.

Not bad, but there's two specific things I'd add:

1. Entities should be able to trade in PA blocks as well, provided they are
trading in at least one PI block.

2.  The policy should explicitly state that no justification is required
beyond that necessary to establish tenancy in the returned blocks.

I'll wander over to ppml at arin.net, as it's apparently become more productive
than it was in the past.

S

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