Policy Proposal: SWIP support for smaller than /29 assignments

Member Services info at arin.net
Wed Jan 23 12:31:23 EST 2008


 > The AC will assign shepherds in the near future. ARIN will provide the
 > names of the shepherds to the community via the PPML.

The shepherds from the ARIN Advisory Council for this proposal are Owen
DeLong and Bill Darte.

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American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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> ## * ##
> 
> 
> Policy Proposal Name: SWIP support for smaller than /29 assignments
> 
> Author: Joe Maimon
> 
> Proposal Version: 1
> 
> Submission Date: Jan 16, 2008
> 
> Proposal type: modify
> 
> Policy term: permanent
> 
> Policy statement:
> 
> 4.2.2.1.2.)
> 
> "
> ISPs must provide reassignment information on the entire previously
> allocated block(s) via SWIP or RWHOIS server for /29 or larger blocks.
> For blocks smaller
> 
> than /29 and for internal space, ISPs should provide utilization data
> using the table format described in Section 4.2.3.7.5.
> "
> 
> Replace with
> 
> "
> ISPs must provide reassignment information on the entire previously
> allocated block(s) via SWIP or RWHOIS server for /29 or larger blocks.
> For blocks smaller
> 
> than /29 and for internal space, ISPs should provide utilization data
> either via SWIP or RWHOIS server or by using the table format described
> in Section 4.2.3.7.5.
> "
> 
> 4.2.2.2.1.)
> 
> "
> Utilization for blocks smaller than /29 can be documented using the
> format described in Section 4.2.3.7.5.
> "
> 
> Replace with
> 
> "
> Utilization for blocks smaller than /29 can be documented via SWIP or
> RWHOIS server or by using the format described in Section 4.2.3.7.5.
> "
> 
> 4.2.3.7.2.)
> 
> "
> For blocks smaller than /29 and for internal space, ISPs should provide
> utilization data using the format described in Section 4.2.3.7.5.
> "
> 
> Replace with
> 
> "
> For blocks smaller than /29 and for internal space, ISPs should provide
> utilization data via SWIP or RWHOIS server or by using the format
> described in Section 4.2.3.7.5.
> "
> 
> 4.2.3.7.5.) Accounting for additional utilization
> 
> "
> The following format should be used to provide the required information
> for utilization of blocks smaller than /29 and for describing internal
> networks:
> "
> 
> Replace with
> 
> "
> The following format should be used to provide the required information
> for utilization of blocks smaller than /29 and for describing internal
> networks when either SWIP or RWHOIS server is not used:
> "
> 
> Rationale:
> 
> With increasing frequency of smaller than /29 assignements to customers,
> the ability for ISP's to utilize SWIP or RWHOIS as a single
> comprehensive source of their utilization data should be supported. To
> implement this policy change, ARIN SWIP would need to no longer reject
> SWIP templates smaller then /29.
> 
> Timetable for implementation: Immediate
> 
> 





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