Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2024-8: Restrict the Largest Initial IPv6 Allocation to /20

2024-06-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:37 PM Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML wrote: > > ARIN is responsible and diligent in evaluating requests. > > The fact that only a single /16 has been issued to date makes me think that > this is a solution in search of a problem. > > I think the policy is fine as it is. > I

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2024-1: Definition of Organization ID/Org ID

2024-02-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 4:22 PM Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML wrote: > > Unfortunately, legal person is also problematic as it would eliminate > unincorporated business entities. > > Suggest adding legal person as an additional term to the proposed language > rather than replacing it. > > Owen > My

Re: [arin-ppml] Revised - Draft Policy ARIN-2022-12: Direct Assignment Language Update

2023-09-29 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 9:51 PM Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML wrote: > > Personally, I am of the opinion that if we are going to take this step, we > should > consider new terminology altogether. > > Perhaps “registration” or “issuance” or similar. > > The meaning of allocation and assignment while a

Re: [arin-ppml] Revised - Draft Policy ARIN-2022-2: Remove Barrier to BGP Uptake in ASN Policy

2022-09-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 8:03 AM William Herrin wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 7:46 AM ARIN wrote: > > Any organization may be issued a single Autonomous System Number (ASN) upon > > request. Organizations that have space issued under Multiple Discrete > > Networks policy may be issued one A

Re: [arin-ppml] [E] Re: AFRINIC vote buying

2022-06-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:39 PM William Herrin wrote: > Hi John, > > As you well know, the general member mailing list is closed to the > public. I do not have access and could not raise an issue there if I > wanted to. Technically, the list archive is open to the public (at least it is right n

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2019-21: Reserved Pool Replenishment

2019-12-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
Support. At some future point it may make sense to eliminate (or reduce the size of) the reserved pools, but until we have consensus as to how to right-size those pools, they should have priority to top them off. ___ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this mess

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2019-20: Harmonization of Maximum Allocation Requirements under Sections 4.1.8 (ARIN Waitlist) and 4.2.2 (Initial Allocation to ISPs)

2019-12-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
Support. In practice basically a no-op, but clarification of intent is always goodness to avoid future confusion. ___ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net). Unsubsc

Re: [arin-ppml] Looking for final show of support on revised Advisory Council Recommendation Regarding NRPM 4.1.8. Unmet Requests

2019-06-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 5:21 PM John Curran wrote: > To that end, at this time it would be good to know from everyone: > > 1. Are you in favor of ARIN making the policy change specified in the > revised "Advisory Council Recommendation Regarding NRPM 4.1.8. Unmet > Requests” ? Support as wri

Re: [arin-ppml] LAST CALL - Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation Upon Reassignment or Reallocation

2019-04-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 2:28 PM David Farmer wrote: > All comments are appreciated. In Favor of the policy. ___ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net). Unsubscribe

Re: [arin-ppml] LAST CALL - Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Improved IPv6 Registration Requirements

2017-10-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:16 PM, ARIN wrote: > The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 6 October 2017 and decided to send the > following to Last Call: > > Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Improved IPv6 Registration > Requirements > > Feedback is encouraged during the Last Call period. Support

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2017-8: Amend the definition of Community Network

2017-08-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Dul wrote: > Do others feel that this part of the definition could be improved too? If so > what requirements were would you like to see in the policy language. I do not want to see ARIN have to decide (and create a formal definition of) what a non-profi

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2016-1: Reserved Pool Transfer Policy

2016-05-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Andrew Dul wrote: > The shepherds have requested feedback on a proposed update to the draft. > The draft has not yet been formally updated. I support the proposed changes to allow continued use of reserved pool numbers in the same manor for which they were initial

Re: [arin-ppml] Pre approvals for transfer-in-kind transactions

2016-05-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > On May 5, 2016, at 13:09 , Jason Schiller wrote: > > I would go s far as to direct ARIN staff to provide provisional approval. > The process would look like this: > > Customer: ARIN, I have a /16. I am currently using 200 IPs as documente

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2016-1: Reserved Pool Transfer Policy

2016-04-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I’d be OK with this, but given that there is remaining free pool for these > resources, I’m not sure that it isn’t better to have a clear policy that when > the resources in these categories are no longer needed, voluntary return to > A

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2016-1: Reserved Pool Transfer Policy

2016-04-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:55 PM, ARIN wrote: > Policy statement: > > Add to Section 8.3 and Section 8.4 under the "Conditions on source of the > transfer:" > > Address resources from a reserved pool (including those designated in > Section 4.4 and 4.10) are not eligible for transfer. I am in

Re: [arin-ppml] Policy idea: POC Validation

2015-04-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > If I could simply consolidate everything into the POC I want and not POCs > made up by others, I'd be a happy camper. +1 to making Marty happy. More to the point, I would agree that while there are legitimate reasons to having multip

Re: [arin-ppml] Policy idea: POC Validation

2015-04-16 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: . > I really like the idea of a requirement for an ACK by the POC on POC creation. > > That should at least create an incentive to stop these records from being > created > by ISPs which will significantly reduce the problem space. I actual

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14: Needs Attestation for some IPv4 Transfers - Revised

2015-02-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:17 PM, ARIN wrote: > ARIN-2014-14 has been revised. This draft policy is open for discussion > on this mailing list. > Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14 > Needs Attestation for some IPv4 Transfers Trying to better understand the details. > 2.An officer of the organizat

Re: [arin-ppml] Requesting Feedback: Draft Policy ARIN-2014-22: Removal of Minimum in Section 4.10

2015-01-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I see no advantage to 2014-22. I think when this block comes into play, > since it is a particular designated block, ISPs will react relatively > quickly to allow longer prefixes within this space when it becomes > necessary. Currently opp

Re: [arin-ppml] Internet Fairness

2014-12-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > A capitalistic model does not work for a finite resource like IP addresses. > All that would happen is that a large company could just buy up all of the > space, and then set its own price for everyone else. How's that for > "fairness"

Re: [arin-ppml] Internet Fairness

2014-12-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > > All of those stats are interesting but they are not what is important here. > What is important is how many small Orgs that applied for the minimum > allocation (as it was defined at the time of the allocation request) since > ARIN was

Re: [arin-ppml] Team Review - policy matter? (was: Re: reverse COE statement)

2014-09-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Gary, . > My concern is that transfers and allocations/assignments from the free pool > should be treated the same. I agree, and that is what I tried (and apparently failed) to state clearly. _

Re: [arin-ppml] Team Review - policy matter? (was: Re: reverse COE statement)

2014-09-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I disagree. While it is not specifically called out, the simple fact is that > 8.3 transfer policy specifically states that IPv4 transfers should be subject > to the same policies as IPv4 free pool allocations. It does make an exception > f

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-20: Transfer Policy SlowStartand Simplified Needs Verification

2014-09-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > > It is a Comcast Fiber line but it goes thru a local Atlanta CLEC and the CLEC > does not support ipv6 yet. Regardless of the C in CLEC, if they are not supporting IPv6, and can not articulate to you a plan to do so, it does not sound lik

Re: [arin-ppml] Revised text for Draft Policy 2014-1 (Out of region use)

2014-07-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Jason Schiller wrote: > I oppose as written, but support the concept. I do not yet have a clear leaning for/against this version of text, but I too have some concerns. I, too, support the concept. > There was some idea in the original policy that this addi

Re: [arin-ppml] Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-9: Resolve Conflict Between RSA and 8.2 Utilization Requirements

2014-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:27 PM, ARIN wrote: > Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-9 > Resolve Conflict Between RSA and 8.2 Utilization Requirements > > On 17 July 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) recommended > ARIN-2014-9 for adoption, making it a Recommended Draft Policy. I am in support of t

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-18: Simplifying Minimum Allocations and Assignments

2014-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Mike Burns wrote: > . How else are we going to get rid of the more than > 1,000 /24s left as the dregs of decades of allocations? Well, you could always reintroduce the proposal that everyone who commented (on that proposal proposal) would get a /24 given to t

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-18: Simplifying Minimum Allocations and Assignments

2014-07-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:58 PM, ARIN wrote: > On 17 July 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-210 > Simplifying Minimum Allocations and Assignments" as a Draft Policy. > > Draft Policy ARIN-2014-18 is below and can be found at: > https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2014_18.ht

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN 2014-13

2014-07-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > ISP initial allocations and End User initial and additional assignment > requests would not be able to be analyzed using such completely > objective criteria. While I expect humans will continue to be fallible, over the decades from w

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN 2014-13

2014-07-18 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > > You are entitled to your opinion and I’m entitled to mine. Absolutely, but you have been unable to articulate a compelling scenario as to how this will negatively impact the region and the members who request numbers. If you would share

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-17: Change Utilization Requirements from last-allocation to total-aggregate - revised

2014-07-17 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Mike Burns wrote: > Others have noted we are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic with > these IPv4 policy issues. > Maybe it is time to metaphorically sweep those chairs into the sea so we can > move on. Perhaps that is an interesting idea. Remove nee

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-17: Change Utilization Requirements from last-allocation to total-aggregate - revised

2014-07-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Jul 14, 2014 7:02 PM, "David Huberman" wrote: > > So I don't get something: > > If it's 80% overall, wouldn't this have an affect on of many XL networks, almost all of whom would be immediately eligible for more space even though they weren't eligible previously? > > I feel like in missing some

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN 2014-13

2014-07-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > > Its more complicated than that. I’ve submitted the proposed policy change > below to the AC. Obviously at this early stage I don’t know if the Community > will accept this or not but 2014-13 complicates this proposal. I appears to me t

Re: [arin-ppml] [Revised] DRAFT POLICY ARIN-2014-9: RESOLVE CONFLICT BETWEEN RSA AND 8.2 UTILIZATION REQUIREMENTS

2014-06-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Scott Leibrand wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Dul wrote: . >> May I suggest the following rewrite to clarify that an organization can >> retain their addresses through a transfer. . > If there is community support for allowing organizati

Re: [arin-ppml] Policy discussion - Method of calculatingutilization ARIN-2014-17

2014-06-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: > Owen, > > I would be extremely grateful if you would be kind enough to take > charge of introducing the removal of needs testing for /20 and longer > as a policy proposal. Perhaps I was unclear in my reply. I apologize. My support was for Ow

Re: [arin-ppml] Policy discussion - Method of calculatingutilization ARIN-2014-17

2014-06-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: . > Actually, I believe that this circumstance is the reason that the immediate > needs clause > exists. "Immediate need" occurred to me, too, but as the NRPM can be a bit "dense" to parse, I had not had time to review if it properly applies

Re: [arin-ppml] LAST CALL: Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-12: Anti-hijack Policy

2014-06-25 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:16 PM, ARIN wrote: > The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 19 June 2014 and decided to > send the following to an extended last call: > > Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-12: Anti-hijack Policy I support this policy as currently written. While I believe that ARIN wi

Re: [arin-ppml] About needs basis in 8.3 transfers

2014-06-14 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > I disagree. It's not as clear cut as you'd like to fantasize it is. It never is. But I have found myself supporting policy changes when clear, real life, examples were presented that showed that good policy resulted in badness (or rocks

Re: [arin-ppml] About needs basis in 8.3 transfers

2014-06-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Mike Burns wrote: > Hi Gary, > > The two are not equal propositions. Never claimed they were. However, Steven stated that even one transfer not being recorded in the database was unacceptable. We now learn that accuracy is not actually a fundamental princip

Re: [arin-ppml] About needs basis in 8.3 transfers

2014-06-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > Even one transfer that doesn't update the database is one too many Playing devils advocate then, I take it you are in favor of moving to rescind (and then re-issue) any IP Numbers for which the whois validation has not been confirmed (by the

Re: [arin-ppml] About needs basis in 8.3 transfers

2014-06-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > >> On Jun 5, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: >> >>> On 6/5/2014 2:32 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Personally, I don't believe that IPv4 runout changes the need for policy >>> that attempts to preserve fairness in how addresses are (re

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-9: Resolve Conflict Between RSA and 8.2 Utilization Requirements

2014-03-21 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:39 AM, John Curran wrote: .. > Matthew - > > A typical example . > At this point, some number of requesters will abandon the process. I can, for some values of understanding, understand this. But I think that is a failure by the requester, not ARIN, and we shoul

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-7: Section 4.4 Micro Allocation Conservation Update - Revised

2014-03-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Dul wrote: > The ARIN AC would appreciate input from the community on this policy. > > Specifically, do you support raising the number of participants required > to obtain an IXP micro allocation from 2 to 3? I support raising the number to 3 for the reason

Re: [arin-ppml] 2014-2 8.4 Anti-flip Language

2014-02-23 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > This is an example of how policies penalize legitimate organizations > needing to do legitimate transfers. In my opinion the Polices have swung > so far towards preventing abuse they impact legitimate transfers. > Let us imagine a compani

Re: [arin-ppml] support for 2014-1 (out of region use)

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:56 PM, David Farmer wrote: > Personally, I think we have to clarify out of region use before we can come > to any rational policy discussion that deals with the issue staff has > raised. Again, hence the problem statement put forward. And due to that inability to

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-7: Section 4.4 Micro Allocation Conservation Update

2014-02-06 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:36 PM, David Farmer wrote: > On 2/5/14, 17:36 , Andrew Dul wrote: >> Does the community support raising the minimum requirement for IXPs from >> 2 to 3? > > > I support the change from a two participants to a three participant standard > to qualify as an Internet Exch

Re: [arin-ppml] 8.2 Transfers at ARIN

2013-12-10 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:31 PM, David Huberman wrote: > So what if the policy/process resulted in 8.2 requests being something like: > > - submit request form > - attach letter from attorney currently admitted to a bar[1] indicating the > transfer request is bona fide > > That's how it's done i

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6: Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors - Revised

2013-09-26 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:21 PM, John Curran wrote: ... > That is correct (and reflects current practice handling resource requests.) John, I support the policy, but I do have a few questions that would help finalize my thinking (that I do not recall seeing asked or answered). I understand that

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6: Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors - Revised Problem Statement and Policy Text

2013-09-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:53 PM, William Herrin wrote: > More, "plurality" makes the 20% rule needlessly complicated. I have to > keep 20% in the ARIN region... unless I have 23% in the RIPE region > and then I need to keep 24% in the ARIN region unless I have 30% in > the APNIC region in whi

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4: RIR Principles - revised

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > I disagree. Unlike say land which they aren't making more of, address schemes > can alway be updated like IPv4 to IPv6. When IPv6 runs out we'll switch to > IPv8 or whatever (albeit at a cost) or something better than IP. Obligatory xkcd r

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-2013-4: RIR Principles / Request for General Thoughts

2013-06-09 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > Hello all, I am going to differentiate between principals and practices. Practices should not be in the (resulting) principals document (practices should be, and in many cases are, in the NRPM). > 1) Do you support the principle of e

Re: [arin-ppml] Against 2013-4

2013-06-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > What kind of value does the needs-based policy provide the community > when it is applied to address transfers, that don't reduce the free > pool size anyways? There is the position that requiring a demonstration of "need" also serves t

Re: [arin-ppml] Against 2013-4

2013-06-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Steven Ryerse wrote: > The day is coming where IPv4 will become a whole lot more scarce as ARIN's > supply decreases. The needs based policies will need to be constantly > tightened "to keep from running out". Why should they need to be tightened? ARIN will ru

Re: [arin-ppml] Needs assessment

2013-06-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote: . > * people who attack the elimination of needs assessments on the grounds that > "there are bad people out there who want to make money on addresses" seem to > be missing the point. Nearly all of the organizations applying for IP > a