All, I just wanted to jump in and signal my support for removing needs testing completely, ala RIPE.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled argument :) Thanks, Jeff On Jun 22, 2014 9:24 PM, "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com> wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Steven Ryerse <srye...@eclipse-networks.com> > wrote: > > > Milton's conclusion in the research for his article: > > > > > http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/06/20/baby-steps-and-big-differences-in-address-transfer-market/ > > > > indicates that the significant majority of the transfers as a result of > the removal of needs testing in Policy of other RIRs is in the smallest > block sizes in the /19-/22 range. It seems obvious that smaller > Organizations with smaller requirements are the ones who have been > prevented via the Needs Policies of the RIRs of getting the resources they > require. Thus the large increase in transfers in the /19-/22 range. I'm > guessing that the pent-up need will at some point be alleviated and the > allocation rate will then level off. > > > > Post hoc ergo propter hoc > > In fact, the vast majority of address blocks issued from the free pools > are in the /19-/22 range and so the vast majority of needs, requests, etc. > also fall into that range. The fact that the distribution both with and > without needs basis seems to fall along roughly the same lines in terms of > block size distribution seems to me to say that elimination of needs basis > testing has not shown to have any meaningful effect, in fact. > > > Milton's research is empirical evidence that the Draft Policy > ARIN-2014-14 is right on target to alleviate this inequity. > > I really don’t see it as such. > > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact i...@arin.net if you experience any issues. >
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