<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have submitted the following suggestion to the ACSP.<div><br></div><div>Combined with policy proposal 121, this should provide relief to those who were concerned</div><div>about the fee discrepancy between IPv4 and IPv6 for very small ISPs.</div><div><br></div><div>I encourage members to make their opinions of this suggestion known on this list or to the members of the board.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Member Services <<a href="mailto:info@arin.net">info@arin.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">January 30, 2011 3:13:40 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>ARIN Suggestion: Thank you</b><br></span></div><br><div><br>Thank you for confirming your suggestion with ARIN. Please reference Suggestion ID number 2011.3 in future correspondence to <a href="mailto:info@arin.net">info@arin.net</a> on this topic. We will contact you if we have any additional questions.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Communications and Member Services<br>American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Suggestion received and confirmed:<br><br>I suggest that the board change the IPv6 subscriber member fee table so that the cutoff between x-small and small is made such that a small provider is in the range /37 to /32 and an x-small provider is /36 or less.<br><br>There is currently no policy language that would enable the creation of a /40 under the subscriber allocation policy and none is under consideration. There is consideration for /36s under proposal 121 which the AC has moved to draft policy.<br><br>By making this change, if policy 121 is adopted, subscribers currently in the x-small IPv4 category will have the option of obtaining allocations of /36 without an annual fee increase.<br><br>Several such providers have indicated on PPML and in other fora that the fee increase is serving as a barrier to their adopting IPv6. It is a failure of our stewardship responsibilities to ignore this community need.<br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>The ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process (ACSP) is available at:<br><a href="http://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html">http://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>