On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 08:49:55 -0700, "Michael Fox - N6MEF" n6mef@mefox.org wrote:
When you apply for a block from ARIN, you have to justify the size. It's reasonable to verify that a certain size is needed. For example, do you really need a /24? Or are you asking for that because you don't want to have to figure out the addresses. 44/8 has the room so I think we shouldn't be onerous about how to justify the block. But I do think "any" size, without a reasonable justification, is not a responsible way to go.
I think you misconstrued my use of the word "any". Although I consider my 44.18/16 block to be very sparsely populated in proportion to its geographic area I wasn't advocating giving out /24s without some kind of justification. In the cases of San Bernardino city and county emergency response networks there was reason to believe a /24 was justified, assuming some kind of repeater network or specialized units to be distributed by the organizations. This gave the organization autonomous authority over their address space without having to come to me for every little change to their system.
In the case of a club, I'd probably want to know how many active members they have and assign a /26 or /25 to allow for expansion.
Following my subnets-down allocation scheme I can keep hosts contiguous within a subnet and if one outgrows its space, allocate the adjacent subnet and/or expand the mask to fit with minimal impact to routing tables.
As it stands, Eric is in my area and we've worked together in the past so I thought he deserved a response from me.