[arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.

[John Curran]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Plimpton Ben wrote:

> John
>
> If this were the case, once a smaller ISP had met your routing  
> criteria, shouldn't we all then be able to request IP's based on  
> what our needs will be for the next few months and not have to  
> justify our previous allocations.

Ben - ARIN doesn't have routing criteria.  ARIN does have policies set
by the community which require an ISP to be able to justify a minimum
size block before being able to come directly to ARIN for an allocation.
Once you meet that minimum address requirement, you can come to
ARIN.

> I'm guessing that at some point, organizations with large  
> allocations have made requests for additional space without having  
> to justify the usage on their other blocks or else this wouldn't be  
> an issue b/c they would have filled them up already and the rest of  
> the community wouldn't feel that they're squatting on their previous  
> allocations.

Everytime you come for an additional allocation, you have to show
utilization of your existing address blocks.  This applies to equally to
all requesters.

The concern expressed is that there are some folks who hold large
historically allocations of address space which do not come in at all
for additional allocations, and hence never have to show their usage.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN