[rpd] Fwd: [arin-ppml] LAST CALL: Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-13: Reduce All Minimum Allocation/Assignment Units to /24

[Owen DeLong]

That is correct.

Owen

On Jun 24, 2014, at 22:52 , Ernest <ernest at afrinic.net> wrote:

> 
> FYI - This proposal (now in last call) in the ARIN region aims to
> set all minimum IPv4 allocation/assignment units to /24.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> Subject: [arin-ppml] LAST CALL: Recommended Draft Policy
> ARIN-2014-13: Reduce All Minimum Allocation/Assignment Units to /24
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:16:34 -0400
> From: ARIN <info at arin.net>
> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
> 
> The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 19 June 2014 and decided to
> send the following to an extended last call:
> 
>  Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-13: Reduce All Minimum
> Allocation/Assignment Units to /24
> 
> Feedback is encouraged during the last call period. All comments should
> be provided to the Public Policy Mailing List. This last call will
> expire on 15 July 2014. After last call the AC will conduct their
> last call review.
> 
> The draft policy text is below and available at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/
> 
> The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Communications and Member Services
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-13
> Reduce All Minimum Allocation/Assignment Units to /24
> 
> Date: 20 May 2014
> 
> AC's assessment of conformance with the Principles of Internet Number
> Resource Policy:
> 
> Draft Policy ARIN-2014-13: Reduce All Minimum Allocation/Assignment
> Units to /24 - This proposal will lower all allocation(s) and
> assignment(s) of IPv4 address in section 4.2 and 4.3 to a /24 minimum.
> The policy would also remove section 4.9 as the allocation and
> assignment sizes were now larger than 4.2 and 4.3. As noted in the
> staff
> report it will also remove the maximum initial allocation that was used
> with the examples in 4.2.2.2. The changes to the NRPM are fair in that
> they would treat all resource applicants equally. They are technically
> sound and have received support from the community.
> 
> Problem Statement:
> 
> As we approach runout, more and more end users and smaller ISPs will be
> unable to obtain space from their upstreams and will be seeking space
> from ARIN. In order to meet these needs to the extent possible and to
> make policy more fair to a broader range of the ARIN constituency, we
> should reduce the minimum assignment and allocation units for IPv4 to
> /24 across the board.
> 
> Policy statement:
> 
> Remove all references to minimum allocations /20 and /22 replacing them
> with the term allocation or with /24 when referencing minimum size
> blocks.
> 
> Change the title of 4.2.2.1 to "ISP Requirements" with revised text
> stating:
> 
> All ISP organizations must satisfy the following requirements...thus
> eliminating the entire Multi-homed section and subsections along with
> other superfluous example text.
> 
> Delete the special case allocations/assignments for the Caribbean as
> the
> new /24 minimums are an improvement.
> 
> Comments:
> a. Timetable for implementation: Immediate b. A red line version has
> been included
> 
> Full text version of changes for easy reference:
> 
> 4.2.1.5. Minimum allocation
> In general, ARIN allocates /24 and larger IP address prefixes to ISPs.
> If allocations smaller than /24 are needed, ISPs should request address
> space from their upstream provider.
> 
> 4.2.2.1 ISP Requirements
> All ISP organizations must satisfy the following requirements:
> 
> 4.2.2.1.1 Use of /24
> The efficient utilization of an entire previously allocated /24 from
> their upstream ISP. This allocation may have been provided by an ISPÂ’s
> upstream provider(s), and does not have to be contiguous address space.
> 
> 4.2.2.1.3. Three months
> Provide detailed information showing specifically how the requested
> allocation will be utilized within three months.
> 
> 4.2.2.1.4. Renumber and return
> ISPs receiving a new allocation may wish to renumber out of their
> previously allocated space. In this case, an ISP must use the new
> allocation to renumber out of that previously allocated block of
> address
> space and must return the space to its upstream provider.
> 
> 4.2.2.2. [section number retired]
> 
> 4.3.2 Minimum assignment
> 
> 4.3.2.1. [section moved to 4.3.2]
> The minimum block of IP address space assigned by ARIN to end-users
> is a
> /24. If assignments smaller than /24 are needed, end-users should
> contact their upstream provider.
> 
> 4.3.2.2 [section number retired]
> 
> 4.9 [section number retired]
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