On Oct 31, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Matthew Petach wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Matthew Kaufman <matt...@matthew.at> wrote: >> On 10/31/2010 9:31 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> If you have PI space, changing providers can be even easier and you can >>> leave >>> multiple providers running in parallel. >> >> That's a big IF, given the above. He doesn't qualify for PI space, thanks to >> ARIN policies set by people who want routing tables to stay as small as >> possible, so PI space to be as difficult as possible to obtain for people >> like him. > > Would it help if ARIN's policies were changed to allow anyone and everyone > to obtain PI space directly from them (for the appropriate fee, of course), > and > then it was left up to the operating community to decide whether or not to > route the smaller chunks of space? > I really don't expect this to be as much of an issue in IPv6.
> Right now, we're trying to keep the two communities somewhat in alignment, > so that when people obtain IP space, they have a relatively good feeling about > it being routed correctly. If we let the ARIN policies stray too far > from what the > router operators can/will accept, we're going to end up with an ugly, > fragmented > internet in which organizations are given PI GUA space, only to > discover it's not > actually useful for reaching large swaths of the internet. > PI GUA is at least as useful in that context as ULA. > I'd hazard a guess that people would consider that to be a worse scenario > than the one in which we limit who can get PI space so that there's a > reasonably > good probability that when the space is issued and announced via BGP, it will > be > reachable from most of the rest of the internet...that is to say, our > current modus > operandi. > Not if they are turning to ULA. Owen