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

2017-10-03 Thread Richard J Letts
My point of view a) I am not sure why educational institutions are not able to pay the fees for other categories of usage, or why they need an exception. ARIN staff would need to decide if the application satisfies this: “a volunteer group, not-for-profit, non-profit, or charitable organ

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Equalization of Assignment Registration requirements between IPv4 and IPv6 - updated 2017-07-21

2017-07-27 Thread Richard J Letts
On this thread we've gone from near-real-time update of bus GPS co-ordinates to suggesting allocating over 64 subnets per student for most of our school districts was a bad idea and we should have allocated more(!) Some stats for SY2017 # districts: 317; # districts <=100 students: 46 ;

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Equalization of Assignment Registration requirements between IPv4 and IPv6 - updated 2017-07-21

2017-07-27 Thread Richard J Letts
I believe we should SWIP for /48. I believe we may SWIP for /56 or longer if the Service provider deems it useful. As an example we assign /48's to school districts, colleges, and universities in the State of Washington. I want each of them to have their own SWIP records so any issues with tr

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Equalization of Assignment Registration requirements between IPv4 and IPv6

2017-07-17 Thread Richard J Letts
I have too many roles and job-titles, so below is my opinion only (as I'm at lunch right now) My 2c. As a residential customer with IPv6: There are many valid reasons not to expose individual residential customer addresses. For example someone being stalked or harassed by an ex. If their IPv6

Re: [arin-ppml] IPv4 SWIP requirements (?)

2017-06-19 Thread Richard J Letts
Technically, there's no relationship between the size of an address block allocated to a customer, and it's appearance the an Internet routing table. As an example the Washington State K20 network is fully IPv6-enabled (2607:FA78::/32) and has blocks assigned to sites -- we don't normally adver

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2017-5: Equalization of Assignment Registration requirements between IPv4 and IPv6

2017-06-01 Thread Richard J Letts
Specifically: DMCA violation notices go to the SWIPed contacts instead of the original holder. /RjL From: ARIN-PPML [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On Behalf Of Martin Hannigan Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 7:58 PM To: Seth Mattinen ; arin-ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Polic

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2016-8: Removal of Indirect POC Validation Requirement

2017-02-15 Thread Richard J. Letts
> -Original Message- > From: ARIN-PPML [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Dul > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 6:40 PM > > I'd like to throw out a few open ended questions that perhaps will guide the > AC as it considers this draft: > > 1. Do you think reassignment

Re: [arin-ppml] Revisit RPKI TAL Relying Party Agreement?

2017-02-03 Thread Richard J. Letts
From: ARIN-PPML [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On Behalf Of William Herrin > Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 9:29 AM ... > Exactly. You refuse to provide new services related to legacy resource > holdings, including RPKI. While not unreasonable in the context of ARIN > operations, this is harmf

Re: [arin-ppml] 2016-9 Streamline Merger & Acquisition Transfers - Text modifications

2017-01-24 Thread Richard J. Letts
: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:13 PM To: Richard J. Letts Cc: arin-ppml@arin.net Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] 2016-9 Streamline Merger & Acquisition Transfers - Text modifications Wouldn't the existing language ("The recipient must provide independently verifiable evidence that they hav

Re: [arin-ppml] 2016-9 Streamline Merger & Acquisition Transfers - Text modifications

2017-01-24 Thread Richard J. Letts
This assumes that only corporate entities merge, acquire, or re-organize. How would state agencies or an inter-institution research group produce the required documentation to facilitate the movement of resources given the lack of independently verifiable information? Similarly, a function migh

Re: [arin-ppml] LAST CALL for Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-5: Post-IPv4-Free-Pool-Depletion Transfer Policy

2016-10-31 Thread Richard J. Letts
Following Owen's opposition to this I decided to have a look. This is probably not relevant to many of my users so I'd not looked in detail at this. I'm going to note that the NRPM is improperly called the Number Policy Resource Manual on the first line of the problem statement, which makes me

Re: [arin-ppml] Community Networks (Was Draft Policy ARIN-2016-6: Eliminate HD-Ratio from NRPM)

2016-08-12 Thread Richard J. Letts
6.5.9.1 says more than was quoted. The bit that was missing is "For community networks located in rural regions (population less than 2,500) or in the Caribbean and North Atlantic Islands Sector, the numbers in these qualification criteria may be relaxed at ARIN's discretion." More than half o

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN 2-Byte ASN inventory and issuance

2016-04-12 Thread Richard J. Letts
This is a commercial view of the world; Part of the network here is a SDN network where we build layer-1 optical or layer-2 VPN with research organizations spread from Chicago and El Paso to Tokyo. I have no control over the equipment at the remote end; I don’t want to have to argue with a resea

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN 2-Byte ASN inventory and issuance

2016-04-08 Thread Richard J. Letts
Agreed; Though I would also point out that charging less than $500 for a 4-byte ASN (say $100) would act as an economic incentive to use one of those if it would work in your situation, and it probably does for most locations. Thank you Richard Letts From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:ar

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-2015-3: Remove 30-Day Utilization Requirement in End-User IPv4 Policy

2016-02-16 Thread Richard J. Letts
My preference is to apply the policy change as written (with the minor editorial change substituting "criterion" for "criteria".) Thank you Richard Letts > -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On > Behalf Of David Farmer > Sent: Monday

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-2015-3: Remove 30-Day Utilization Requirement in End-User IPv4 Policy

2016-01-29 Thread Richard J. Letts
Why are we adding more rules for IPv4 space? a) It is almost impossible to get space in a reasonable timescale without paying (more than just the ARIN fees) for it b) If you have to pay for the space anyway you are not going to buy something that you can't use (unless you are specu

Re: [arin-ppml] Advisory Council Meeting Results - December 2015

2015-12-22 Thread Richard J. Letts
As an alternative to ARIN taking on the burden of allowing/managing SWIP for end-user registrants how about allowing end-user registrants to register/run a rwhois server? That way if a large organization (like, say Apple or Microsoft) wants to publish data for their networks they can take on al

Re: [arin-ppml] 11 Proposals Under Consideration

2015-09-30 Thread Richard J. Letts
Dave Farmer asked for opinions on the other proposals. -9 has been flogged close to death, here are my opinions on five of the others. > -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On > Behalf Of David Farmer > Sent: 25 September 2015 2:14 PM

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-9: Eliminating needs-based evaluation for Section 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 transfers of IPv4 netblocks

2015-09-30 Thread Richard J. Letts
Where did the 9% come from? Should that not be 24%? Either way, if we were talking about houses then many of us realize that if the number of bidders on property who had the cash (but not the need) were 10 or 25% larger, then you might expect the value of the property to be higher. The same is

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-9: Eliminating needs-based evaluation for Section 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 transfers of IPv4 netblocks

2015-09-24 Thread Richard J. Letts
b) There is no definitive outcome from the policy change, which makes me feel that it's not worth changing -- the problem statement argument is weak at best. It is potentially enabling organizations with more money than need gain more resources, potentially at the expense of non-profit and educ

Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-5: Out of region use - revised

2015-09-10 Thread Richard J. Letts
> -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On > Behalf Of ARIN > Sent: 9 September 2015 6:39 AM > To: arin-ppml@arin.net > Subject: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-5: Out of region use - revised > > Current policy neither clearly forbid

Re: [arin-ppml] Thoughts on 2015-7

2015-08-20 Thread Richard J. Letts
I'm unconvinced; the new policy leaves it too open for enabling speculation. Richard Letts > -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On > Behalf Of Rob Seastrom > Sent: 20 August 2015 12:46 PM > To: p...@arin.net > Subject: [arin-ppml] Tho

Re: [arin-ppml] Automatic IPv6 Eligibility

2015-08-13 Thread Richard J. Letts
Comcast gives their customers a /60 -- 16 -- which should be enough for almost all home users Personally, I use four at home: Wireless has two (guest SSID + my SSID) Wired has two (guest room wired ports + home wired network) Richard Letts > -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@

Re: [arin-ppml] Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2015-1: Modification to Criteria for IPv6 Initial End-User Assignments

2015-06-25 Thread Richard J. Letts
I still do not think the problem statement is a real issue. If you have Multiple Discrete Networks (using the IPv4 terminology) then that would seem to me be reason enough to apply for space under 6.5.8.1(e) i.e. given a geographically dispersed location then that seems reasonable to need separa

Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-PPML 2015-2

2015-06-05 Thread Richard J. Letts
If that is the case, then ARIN/We should update inter-RIR policies to only allow transfers to registries that have substantially similar transfer policies. This does not require complete blobal co-ordination, but it will establish areas where co-operating RIRs get access to free markets and unc

Re: [arin-ppml] 2015-2

2015-06-04 Thread Richard J. Letts
I am against 2015-2; either I’m not understanding why waiting to do this is a problem or it’s shuffling deckchairs for a minority of companies. Richard Letts ___ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Ma

Re: [arin-ppml] IPv6 End-User Initial Assignment Policy (or: Please don't me make do ULA + NAT66)

2015-02-20 Thread Richard J. Letts
I have read the scenarios people have presented and I have not understood what the problem statement is. Has anyone asked and failed to get IPv6 resources? It looks to me like the problem statements are for really small businesses and caused by poor network design, or the assumption that having

Re: [arin-ppml] Multi-homing justification removed?

2014-11-19 Thread Richard J. Letts
I believe the intent was there. orgs that have a justifiable/provable need for a /24 were been restricted by their current/lone provider being unwilling to give them enough address space. Not everyone has the ability to change providers, and if you can't change providers then you certainly woul

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

2014-09-03 Thread Richard J. Letts
What Seth said; oppose 2014-18 /RjL On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > > On 7/23/14, 7:58, 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 ARI

Re: [arin-ppml] Policy discussion - Method of calculating utilization

2014-05-02 Thread Richard J. Letts
> -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On > Behalf Of Jeffrey Lyon > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:49 AM > > Friends, Colleagues, > > A couple of years ago I brought up an issue I had run into where the > utilization requirement fo

Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Reduce all Minimum Allocation/Assignment units to /24

2014-04-30 Thread Richard J. Letts
Support. 4.9/4.9.1 could be deleted; ARIN would then need no special handling for that part of the region. Richard Letts Network Operations Center Manager UW Information Technology Mail: Box 354840 Street: 4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98105 206.685.1699 | mobile 206.790.5837 rjle...@uw.edu

Re: [arin-ppml] Term Limit Proposal

2014-03-26 Thread Richard J. Letts
I've seen that a new member has joined the ARIN AC each year. I have not heard concrete evidence that this proposal improves the policy making process I do not think this is a good idea. Richard Letts ___ PPML You are receiving this message because yo

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

2014-03-25 Thread Richard J. Letts
> -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On > Behalf Of David Farmer > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 3:51 PM > > On 3/21/14, 09:10 , Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > > > > > Any M&A, or organization changes, have a cost regarding business > > r