* Mark Andrews
I understand this but this block changes the status quo. It is a policy changer. AFAIK ARIN hasn't done allocations to the /28 level like this in the past. This is all new territory.
It's not exactly new. Like I've mentioned earlier in this thread, the RIPE NCC has granted assignments smaller than /24 to requestors since, well, "forever". There are currently 238 such assignments listed in delegated-ripencc-extended-latest.txt. However, these microscopic assignments have proven hugely unpopular, amounting for only a fraction of a percent of the total (there are 27733 assignments equal to or larger than /24 in the same file). What I fail to understand from this thread is the apparent expectation that these smaller-than-/24 microscopic delegations from ARIN will be popular. As I read the policy in question, the requestors may get a /24 instead. That's a pretty miniature block to begin with and trivial to justify, and given human nature of wanting to grab as much of something as you can (especially when you in all likelihood cannot get nearly as much as you actually need), coupled with the fact that a /24 is likely to be immensely more useful than anything smaller...well, I just don't see why we shouldn't realistically expect that pretty much all of the assignments being made from this block will be exactly /24, and that exceptions that prove the rule will amount for <1% of the total - just like we've seen happen in the RIPE region. Oh well. Time will tell, I suppose. Tore