... - Do you support or oppose this proposal?
- Does this proposal solve a problem you are experiencing? If so,
tell the community about your situation.
- Do you see any disadvantages in this proposal?
- Is there anything in the proposal that is not clear?
I don't see any explanation for the /36 minimum allocation. Why isn't it say /40? or /48?
A /36 is already a sub-par allocation for an ISP, why would you want to go any smaller?
I don't know. Why do we want /36s?
If there is a use-case for sub-par allocations, say what it is
and then it should be obvious what size it should be.
See above. I think that 1/16th of a normal small ISP is probably about right and
that measure reached consensus in the ARIN region.
4. Allow LIRs to request nibble-aligned blocks of any size greater than
or equal to /36.
4.1 The default minimum is /32 unless the provider specifically
asks for a /36.
Apart from the generic ...
- Reduces the potential for harmful under-sized assignments to end
users by removing any incentive to do so.