[c-nsp] Disable ARP

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:35:32PM +0200, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> If RIPE thinks a /30 per static address
> customer is wrong, they seriously need to rethink their policies.

This is starting to become very much off-topic on cisco-nsp, but 
nevertheless I need to comment this.

First, "RIPE" is "all of us".  The folks in Amsterdam don't make the
policy, they (the RIPE NCC) are just the instrument to apply the policy
that *we* make.  The policy process is open, everybody can participate,
and the result is based on consensus (which isn't always easy to achieve).

Then, there are a number of misconceptions about how hard it is to get
IP addresses, and how tight the policy really is.  Conservation of
addresses *is* one of the goals, but always in the boundaries of "it
must be possible to actually *use* the resulting network for its
planned purposes".

gert
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