[AFRINIC-rpd] Fwd: new proposal: "Remove requirement to announce entire v6 block as single aggregate"

[Ernest]

Colleagues,

The policy proposal below has just been submitted as detailed. We
encourage the community to study and provide appropriate feedback on
the proposal.

Regards,
Ernest.


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Identifier:	    AFPUB-2013-V6-001-DRAFT01

Draft Policy Name:   Remove requirement to announce entire v6 block as
single aggregate

Author(s)
 :
    Steven Wiesman,
    steven.j.wiesman at accenture.com,
    Accenture


   Steven Tapper,
   steven.tapper at accenture.com,
   Accenture
	
   Charles Hendrickson,
   Charles.hendrickson at accenture.com,
   Accenture
	

Submission Date:   2013-05-16



[1]  Summary of the Problem Being Addressed by this Policy Proposal

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The current AFRINIC allocation policy provides for and assigns IPv6
space to companies residing within the region’s countries.  This
assignment policy aligns with the IPv6 hierarchy but does not allow
for multinational companies’ efficient distribution of IPv6 address
space. Under the existing policy, a multinational company has to
apply for membership and IPv6 resources from every location in which
it operates.  This is both costly and time consuming to the Registry
and the Multinational Company applying for membership.
The RIR has to maintain and organize multiple prefixes assigned to
one company and provide services appropriate to the membership
process.  The company applying for membership has to perform the
same function of managing multiple IPv6 assigned ranges and
technically operate and manage the disparate IPv6 ranges assigned to
the locations.

For example under the existing policy,
•	Multinational company A operates in 15 countries within the
AFRINIC region.
•	The Multinational Company needs to apply for membership from each
of the 15 locations.
•	The Multinational Company needs to apply for IPv6 resources from
each of the 15 locations.
•	The Multinational Company has 15 potentially different prefixes to
manage and operate.
•	The Multinational Company has 15 potentially different prefix
lengths to manage and operate.
•	The multinational company needs to pay yearly the renewal fees to
lease the IPv6 address space awarded for each location.
•	AFRINIC needs to review and award location based appropriate
prefixes to each of the 15 locations.
•	AFRINIC needs to assign IPv6 resources to 15 separate locations
which may come from separate areas of the RIR managed IPv6 ranges.
•	AFRINIC needs to process the paperwork for 1 company 15 times for
membership.
•	AFRINIC needs to process billing on a yearly basis for 1
multinational company 15 different times.
•	IPv6 address assignments are location based and must only be
advertised as an aggregated prefix to the Internet in which the
prefix was awarded.  Additional subnetting and advertisement of the
awarded IPv6 address range is not permitted.  For example:
-	One /32 aggregated from one location
-	Smaller subnets, ie /48 from the same prefix, cannot be advertised
out of another location


[2] Summary of How this Proposal Addresses the Problem

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This proposal allows for the Multinational Company to apply for and
obtain a larger aggregated IPv6 block of addresses and allows the
company to allocate, assign and advertise the IPv6 address range
awarded according to its own internal IPv6 hierarchical policies.
Additionally, AFRINIC will now only need to review and maintain
membership records for one instance of the multinational company,
and by prefix, immediately identifies the company.

For example under the proposed policy,
•	Multinational Company A operates in 15 countries within the
AFRINIC region.
•	The Multinational Company needs to apply for membership one time.
•	The Multinational Company needs to apply for IPv6 resources one
time providing sufficient evidence of hierarchical design.
•	The Multinational Company is awarded a prefix sufficent to cover
the 15 offices and future growth and or expansion within the region.
•	The Multinational Company has one prefix to manage, operate and
break down according to its internal policy.
•	The multinational company needs to pay yearly the renewal fees to
lease the IPv6 address space awarded one time.
•	AFRINIC needs to process the paperwork for 1 company.
•	AFRINIC needs to review and award a prefix to the multinational
company one time.
•	AFRINIC needs to process billing on a yearly basis for 1
multinational company one time.
•	The IPv6 address assignment is company identifiable.
•	Policy allows for multiple aggregated prefixes to the Internet.
•	Additional subnetting and advertisement of the aggregated IPv6
address range is permitted.  For example:
-	One /32 aggregated from one location
-	Smaller subnets, ie /48 from the same prefix, advertised out of
another location.


[3] Proposal
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We propose to delete the following sentence in section 6.1.1 (d)
from the IPv6 policy
“The LIR should also plan to announce the allocation as a single
aggregated block in the inter-domain routing system within twelve
months.”


[4] Revision History

None

[5] References

IPv6 Allocation Policy
https://my.AFRINIC.net/help/policies/afpol-v6200407-000.htm

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