On Mon, 12 May 2003, Gert Doering wrote:
There has been a proposal to extend the microallocation policy, but luckily enough it has been shot down.
Could you give me some more background on that? What was the proposal, and why was it shot down?
Proposal: http://www.arin.net/policy/2003_4.html There are numerous problems with the proposal, even though it may have been well-intentioned: 1) waiving 200 /48 assignments could enable any 1-person consulting business with 1 customer to get a /32 2) micro-allocations are useless unless they're routed, and there is no community concensus that they're the right thing to do at the moment. 3) there kinds of policy changes should occur on a different level, like global-v6 mailing list and/or the IETF, not just one RIR. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings