On 10/18/10 12:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their > nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close > considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and > there doesn't seem to be consensus yet. > > For these customers, I don't think they will need more than a /29, > but if we collectively decide that a /28 is the next step from a /32, > how will the older allocations be dealt with? This is pretty much a > rhetorical question at this point, and I suppose the proper thing to > do is to channel these questions toward the PPML for discussion as > potential policy.
back in the distant past we were issued a /35, policy changed, we returned it and on 2001 7/11 we were issued our current /32 > thanks, -Randy > > -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President, IT Services | Red Hat > Certified Engineer | First Network Group, Inc. | (419)739-9240, x1 > ---- > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Randy - >> >> We'll likely put that out to the ARIN community for consultation at >> the point in time when becomes a potential issue. I expect we will >> have plenty of time before that needs to be considered at the >> present rate of allocation. >> >> /John >> >> John Curran President and CEO ARIN >> >> On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: >> >>> John, >>> >>> Can you tell us at what degree the bisection stops? i.e. does it >>> keep going until there are no spaces left, or will you leave >>> some space in between each one to leave some room for future >>> needs for orgs that already have allocations? >>> >>> >>> -Randy >>> >>> -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President, IT Services | Red Hat >>> Certified Engineer | First Network Group, Inc. | (419)739-9240, >>> x1 ---- >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:18 PM, David Conrad wrote: >>>>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote: >>>>>> ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least >>>>>> down to /31). >>>>> >>>>> Do they still do that? Back when I was at IANA, one of the >>>>> justifications the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was >>>>> that they were going to be using the 'bisection' method of >>>>> allocation which removes the need for reservation. Last I >>>>> heard, APNIC was using the bisection method... >>>> >>>> ARIN is doing the same (the 'bisection' method) with our IPv6 >>>> management since January 2010: we refer to the "sparse >>>> allocation" approach and it was requested by the community >>>> during the ARIN/NANOG Dearborn meeting. >>>> >>>> FYI, /John >>>> >>>> John Curran President and CEO ARIN >