corrected: Policy 2001-2, Multihoming is sufficient justifica tion for /24 from provider (fwd)

[Sweeting, John]

That would leave a big hole for anyone to say that they intend to become
multi-homed. They should already have address space assigned to them but
probably in a much smaller block, such as a /28 or so, and then once they
become multi-homed they would want a /24 so they would have a better chance
of not being filtered. My feeling is that they should have an ASN before
being able to justify a /24 under this policy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Einar Bohlin [mailto:ebohlin at UU.NET]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:40 PM
To: ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: corrected: Policy 2001-2, Multihoming is sufficient
justification for /24 from provider (fwd)


The following requirement makes the policy unworkable
and should be replaced:

"-Customer must cite their asn as justification for address space"
  
There's a catch-22 here in that ARIN won't give
the customer an ASN until the customer has a net,
and the ISP won't be able to give the customer the /24
until the customer can show their ASN.  This
won't work.

It should be "-Customer cites intent to multihome as
justification for address space".  This lets ARIN
continue to do their job of registering AS numbers,
and allows ISPs to conduct business with their customers.

FYI I tried to see the original wording, but the 
link on the ARIN main site is broken (LAST CALL:
Policy 2001-2... points to ASO election results).

Regards,

Einar Bohlin
IP Planning Analyst
WorldCom, Inc.
Phone: USA 703 886-7362
email: einar.bohlin at wcom.com


On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:16:18PM -0700, Barbara Roseman wrote:
> During the ARIN Advisory Council meeting of October 30th the AC voted to
> accept this policy and forward it to the ARIN BOT with the following
> amendments
> 
> Original Proposal:   A downstream customer's multihoming requirement will
>                 serve as justification for a /24 reassignment from
>                 their upstream ISP regardless of host requirements.
> 
> -Customer must cite their asn as justification for address space
> -Customer may receive space from only one of its upstream providers
> without additional justification
> 
> 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 on 23:59 EST 19 Nov 16, 2001.
> 
> 
> ---
> Barbara Roseman
> Sr. Manager, FACT
> Global Crossing
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> Cell: +1 917-498-1677
> broseman at gblx.net
> 
> 
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