Re: [44net] Running for ARDC director position

I don't think the current format of the ARDC was an attempt at a "power grab" by anyone. My guess it was the easiest, fastest, and least expensive way to form a public entity to hold on to the 44.0.0.0/8 space when ARIN created their "Legacy" address allocation policies. As for not being official "Legacy" address space, signing an LRSA with ARIN is problematic for many legacy address holders because it is not clear wether the rights one gets and gives up is worth it. Plus it can incur paying enormous annual fees (in the tens of thousands of dollars range) to ARIN. Also keep in mind that UCSD is being very generous by advertising themselves as the gateway for a /8 of traffic. They do so because it can be useful for their research purposes. We need to be careful that any major changes that are made to the 44.0.0.0/8 topology do not prematurely disrupt that relationship, or we could lose connectivity to the whole IP-IP tunnel space, and I doubt there are any institutions that would be willing to take over that role for no cost. -Neil On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Marc, LX1DUC <lx1duc(a)laru.lu> wrote: -- Neil Johnson http://erudicon.com