This does not reconcile with my memory of the Dec 97 Airn AC meeting, while the AC can only recommend, there was discusion of longer prefixes and the issue was raised would ISPs relax filtering, and someone that either worked for sprint or had worked at sprint in the past, did indicate to the members of the AC that were present, that Sprint would be open to talking about changing filters to reflect allocation policy. Sane allocation policy is one of ARIN's missions, and it is completely within the scope of ARIN to notify ISPs of the minimum prefix length allocated. It is up to the ISP and only the ISP to set the filter policy. I don't like the wording of Scott's statement, but it is technicaly correct. Filters are only part of ARIN's mission when they are related to allocation policy, and it would be pointless for ARIN to change policy if it was not coordinated with various ISPs that filter. In message <199810080052.UAA16833@newdev.harvard.edu>, Scott Bradner writes:

it was said

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I have been told that ARIN did make an effort to have Sprint remove its filter so that ARIN could allocate blocks longer than /19, but I have not confirmed this with ARIN.

this is not true - ARIN has not, nor will it, ask an ISP to add or delete any filters - dealing with filters is far outside of ARIN's mission

ARIN has discussed changing alocation policies but this did not include asking Sprint or anyone to change their policies

before I get asked- changes to ARIN policies are posted on the ARIN web site

Scott

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