On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:27 PM, David Huberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > As the author, I proposed this policy because it is not ARIN's role to > artificially regulate minimum block sizes. I feel this is especially in a > post-exhaustion world, which is very quickly coming. > > The economics of routing are the same today as they were 14 years ago when > Bill Manning taught me an important principal: people will pay to route > whatever you pay them to route. Moreover, there is no technical reason I can > think of to require a /24 as the minimum TRANSFERRABLE size. If two parties > wish to exchange smaller prefixes, I cannot see a technical motivation for > ARIN policy to prohibit such a transaction. >
Multiple parties exchange smaller prefixes _all the time_. It's called peering. > I ask you to support this policy on principle, or educate us why removing the > minimum transferrable block size is harmful to the technical operations of > the internet. > Support. Best, -M< _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
