David, If the last section was changed to...
Other critical infrastructure such as core DNS service providers (e.g. ICANN-sanctioned root and ccTLD operators) as well as the RIRs and IANA, may receive allocations from ARIN, when operational need can be demonstrated. Would this alleviate your concerns? Andrew On 9/22/2014 11:09 AM, David Huberman wrote: > > I apologize – I wish to follow-up on my own post as I hastily composed it. > > > > Many years ago, Randy Bush made a point which resonated me: we want > to avoid “golden networks”. We want to avoid 8.8.8.8 being designated > a critical internet infrastructure service just because it’s > successful. Its absence would not stop the internet from working (in > this case, DNS would still resolve just fine). We want to avoid > “anycast” being a “golden network”. Anycast is an engineering choice, > but its existence within a platform is not mission critical. It just > works better that way, maybe, but not more than that. > > > > My stated concern with the new text is it opens to the door to Randy’s > golden networks. I’d prefer not to, especially as I think the > pre-defined list serves us well. > > > > *David R Huberman* > > Microsoft Corporation > > Principal, Global IP Addressing > > > > *From:*arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] > *On Behalf Of *David Huberman > *Sent:* Monday, September 22, 2014 11:05 AM > *To:* arin-ppml@arin.net; Andrew Dul > *Subject:* Re: [arin-ppml] Micro-allocation policy proposal draft > > > > This text concerns me: > > > > Other critical infrastructure which is not defined in other > sub-sections of section 4.4, > > > may receive allocations from ARIN, when operational need can be > demonstrated. > > > > Can you please give us a real-world example? The pre-defined list of > critical operators has served us well over 17 years. I've never seen > nor heard of something that's truly critical to the operation of the > internet that isn't in this list that has petitioned ARIN and > failed. I'm loathe to change it. > > >
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