From memsvcs at arin.net Tue Nov 6 08:50:39 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:50:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Voting Booth Open - ARIN Board and AC On-line Elections Message-ID: [Please note - if you are also the designated ARIN member representative for your firm you will receive a second email with voting instructions.] The on-line election for two(2) seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees and six(6) seats on the ARIN Advisory Council opens at 9:00 AM EST today, November 6, and closes at 9:00 AM EST, Tuesday, November 16, 2001. Please note that once a vote is cast, the voter must reply to the verification email no later than noon EST on November 13. Candidate bios can be found on the ARIN website as follows: http://www.arin.net/election/botbios.html http://www.arin.net/election/acbios.html All ARIN designated member representatives are receiving voting instructions this morning, including the url for the voting booth. The member rep. is the only individual eligible to cast your company's vote. For voting purposes we must have an individual's name and personalized email address, role accounts are not acceptable. If you have any questions concerning the designated member rep. for your firm, please email memsvcs at arin.net. We encourage all ARIN members to exercise their right to vote. Susan Hamlin Director, Member Services From memsvcs at arin.net Fri Nov 9 13:43:58 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:43:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: Vote for ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council Members Message-ID: The voting booth closes at 9:00 AM EST, Tuesday November 13 for the ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council election. If you are your firm's designated member representative, you were sent the election booth url on November 6. This election is to determine two seats on a 7-member Board of Trustees and 6 seats on a 15-member Advisory Council. Your vote will make a difference. Please contact ARIN Member Services, memsvcs at arin.net, if you need assistance in determining who is eligible to cast your firm's vote or directions to the voting booth. We encourage all members to take the time to read the candidate bios on the ARIN website at: http://www.arin.net/election/botbios.html http://rs1.arin.net/election/acbios.html AND to exercise one of your membership privileges - VOTE! Susan Hamlin Director, Member Services From memsvcs at arin.net Mon Nov 12 14:33:51 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:33:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: Last Call for Comment: Policy Proposal 2001-2 Message-ID: <200111121933.OAA24638@ops.arin.net> The ARIN Advisory Council voted to forward to the ARIN Board of Trustees the following policy. This a last call for community comment on this policy prior to the ARIN Board of Trustees review of the proposed policy. This policy will be posted on the ARIN website and the ARIN Public Policy email list. Please send your comments to ppml at arin.net. This last call will expire at 23:59 EST on November 23, 2001. Ray Plzak President American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) *** Last Call - Policy Proposal 2001-2 *** A downstream customer's multihoming requirement will serve as justification for a /24 reassignment from their upstream ISP regardless of host requirements. - Customer must provide contact information for their upstream providers - Customer may receive space from only one of its upstream providers without additional justification. From memsvcs at arin.net Mon Nov 12 14:35:12 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:35:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: Last Call for Comment: Policy Proposal 2001-3 Message-ID: <200111121935.OAA24838@ops.arin.net> The ARIN Advisory Council voted to forward to the ARIN Board of Trustees the following policy. This a last call for community comment on this policy prior to the ARIN Board of Trustees review of the proposed policy. This policy will be posted on the ARIN website and the ARIN Public Policy email list. Please send your comments to ppml at arin.net. This last call will expire at 23:59 EST on November 23, 2001. Ray Plzak President American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) *** Last Call - Policy Proposal 2001-3 *** Extend the existing IPv4 micro-allocation policy for exchange points, gTLDs, ccTLDs, RIRs, and ICANN to include IPv6 micro-allocations. ARIN's current IPv4 micro-allocation policy is documented at: http://www.arin.net/regserv/ip-assignment.html The assignment size under this policy will be a /64, or multiple /64s, if justified. From memsvcs at arin.net Mon Nov 12 14:36:20 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:36:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: Call for Comment: Policy Proposal 2001-6 Message-ID: <200111121936.OAA24951@ops.arin.net> The ARIN Advisory Council voted to forward to the ARIN Board of Trustees the following policy. This a last call for community comment on this policy prior to the ARIN Board of Trustees review of the proposed policy. This policy will be posted on the ARIN website and the ARIN Public Policy email list. Please send your comments to ppml at arin.net. This last call will expire at 23:59 EST on November 23, 2001. Ray Plzak President American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) *** Last Call - Policy Proposal 2001-6 *** ARIN currently has an allocation policy that is 'blind' to route Filtering and global routablity, yet in order for address space to be usable it must be accepted and routed by the community at large. This fact can create allocation concerns for organizations that have multiple discrete multi-homed networks. Organizations may design their networks in this manner for a number of reasons including regulatory restrictions (Federal FCC mandated inter-lata restrictions), geographic diversity/distance between networks, and routing policy. Current RIR allocation policy requires that before a single organization can obtain additional address space it must show 80% utilization (through SWIP or rWhois) per RFC 2050. Currently, some organizations have circumvented this requirement by Creating "multiple maintainers" with ARIN and request address space for networks as though they were separate organizations. This practice creates both practical and financial concerns for ARIN. In practice it appears that organizations can just 'buy' additional address space without regard to utilization on other networks and this in turn increases ARIN's revenue dependence on a small number of organizations. Current allocation requirements can become unreasonable when operating a set of discrete networks for organizations which intend on following the current allocations policy. Discrete networks must often have separate unique globally routable address space and will often grow at different rates. This growth differential can lead to a situation where one discrete network is completely allocated but another network has not yet been fully utilized. Under the current allocation policy the organization would need to Request additional address space from the RIR; however, given a strict interpretation of the existing policy, the RIR may not be able to grant additional address space to the organization, due to the 80% utilization requirement. This constraint can easily be seen when you consider an organization with two geographically discrete autonomous networks. The organization initially requested a /19 from the RIR for its two networks with the intent to route a single /20 from each network. Network A's utilization grows considerably faster than Network B. Network A is currently showing 90% utilization and needs additional address space for new customers being added to this network. Network B's address space is being utilized but currently only shows 40% utilization. This would produce an allocation utilization percentage of 65% which is below the requirement for additional address space by a RIR. We propose for organizations which meet the following criteria to be granted the opportunity to request additional address space under the requirements listed below. Criteria for the application of this policy: * The organization should be a single entity, and not a consortium of smaller independent entities. (Example: Not a group of independent network operators who form a group specifically for this policy) * This policy applies only to organizations that have been previously granted address space by an RIR. This policy does not apply to organizations with only legacy address space. * The organization must have multiple (at least two) discrete multi-homed networks. * The organization should have compelling criteria for creating discrete networks. Examples: 1) regulatory restrictions for data transmission 2) geographic distance and diversity between networks 3) autonomous multi-homed discrete networks * An organization which would like to use this policy must apply for this policy to be applied to their maintainer account. Requirements for additional allocations from RIR: * The organization must record allocations or assignments down to the current RIR bit boundary (currently /29 for ARIN) and record them in an approved RIR public database. * The organization must keep detailed records of how it has allocated space to each discrete network. This should include the block allocated, any reserved blocks, and date of allocation/reservation. The discrete network allocation information should also be present in a public database (Example: routing registry, rWhois, or SWIP). * The organization must not allocate additional space to a discrete network unless all the blocks allocated to that network show utilization greater than 80% individually and as a whole. * The organization must not allocate a CIDR block larger than the current minimum assignment size of the RIR (currently /20 for ARIN) to a new network. * The organization must not allocate an additional CIDR block larger than the current minimum assignment size of the RIR (currently /20 for ARIN) to an existing network, unless previous growth rates for that network indicate that it is likely to utilize a larger CIDR block before the time the organization will be requesting an additional block from the RIR. The suggested minimum allocation size for an additional block for a network is the current minimum assignment size of the RIR. * When allocating a block larger than the minimum assignment size to an existing network the organization should use the smallest allocation possible out of a larger reserved block. This requirement is to reduce the number of routes the organization will announce from that autonomous system. Example: A fast growing network is allocated a /20 out of a reserved /19, when the /20 is 80% utilized the announcement is expanded to a /19 and the /20 announcement is removed. This practice also allows the reserved /20 to be used by another discrete network should the 'fast growing network' not use the address space as anticipated. * When applying for additional address space, from an RIR, for new networks or additional space for existing networks the organization must show greater than 50% utilization for the last block granted by the RIR and their allocations as a whole. Any reserved blocks must be allocated to a discrete network before the RIR will grant additional address space. * The organization must follow guidelines of RFC 2050 (or its replacement)and the policy of the granting RIR for allocations that are assigned or allocated to downstream networks. This includes record keeping of allocation and reassignment requests and network utilization documents for audits by the RIR. * Current members presently managing multiple maintainer accounts should contact the ARIN Hostmaster if they wish for this policy to apply to one or more of their current accounts. From memsvcs at arin.net Mon Nov 12 14:37:28 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:37:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Subject: Last Call for Comment: Policy Proposal 2001-7 Message-ID: <200111121937.OAA25221@ops.arin.net> The ARIN Advisory Council voted to forward to the ARIN Board of Trustees the following policy. This a last call for community comment on this policy prior to the ARIN Board of Trustees review of the proposed policy. This policy will be posted on the ARIN website and the ARIN Public Policy email list. Please send your comments to ppml at arin.net. This last call will expire at 23:59 EST on November 23, 2001. Ray Plzak President American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) *** Last Call - Policy Proposal 2001-7 *** It is proposed ARIN provide a bulk copy of WHOIS output, minus point of contact information, on the ARIN FTP site for download by any organization that wishes to obtain the data providing they agree to ARIN's acceptable use policy. From memsvcs at arin.net Mon Nov 12 15:42:49 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:42:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: ARIN Voting Closes Tomorrow 9:00 AM EST Message-ID: The election for two (2) seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees and six (6) seats on the ARIN Advisory Council closes tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM EST. Candidate bios can be found on the ARIN website at: http://www.arin.net/election/botbios.html http://www.arin.net/election/acbios.html If you are the designated member representative for your firm and have not voted, please do so before the deadline. After voting, don't forget to reply to the verification email you will receive from ARIN in order to confirm your vote. The url for the voting booth is: www.arin.net/election.html. Every firm has one vote and each vote counts so please participate in this important election. Susan Hamlin Director, Member Services From memsvcs at arin.net Wed Nov 14 13:45:36 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:45:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: ARIN Board of Trustees Election Results Message-ID: I am pleased to announce that Lee Howard and Bill Manning have been voted by the ARIN membership to seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees. Each will begin serving a three-year term on January 1, 2002. The election process and results have been verified according to the requirements in the ARIN Bylaws. ARIN and the Internet community at large would like to thank out-going Board member Michael Straty for his three years of service, both on the Board and as Treasurer of ARIN. In addition, ARIN appreciates the interest expressed by the impressive list of qualified candidates who sought to take a leadership role within the organization. Ray Plzak President & CEO ARIN From memsvcs at arin.net Thu Nov 15 07:35:07 2001 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:35:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: ARIN Advisory Council Election Results Announced Message-ID: I am pleased to announce that the following individuals have been voted by the ARIN membership to seats on the ARIN Advisory Council for terms as specified below, and all commencing January 1, 2002. Lyric Apted - two years John Brown - three years Sanford George - three years Dawn Martin - three years Ron da Silva - three years Cathy Wittbrodt - three years The election process and results have been verified according to the requirements in the ARIN Bylaws. ARIN and the Internet community at large would like to thank the out-going Advisory Council members listed below for their years of dedicated service: Steve Corbato Tony Li Bill Manning Guy Middleton Justin Newton Ray Plzak President & CEO ARIN