[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Last Minute Assistance for Small ISPs

[Pete Templin]

Member Services wrote:

> In the meantime, the AC invites everyone to comment on the proposal on
> the PPML, particularly their support or non-support and the reasoning
> behind their opinion. Such participation contributes to a thorough
> vetting and provides important guidance to the AC in their deliberations.

First, a request for typographical corrections:

> "Until ARIN has assigned 90% of it's remaining IP addressing,"

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> When ARIN has reached 90% allocation of it's remaining IP free pool,

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> When ARIN has reached 95% allocation of it's remaining IP free pool,

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> When ARIN has reached 97% allocation of it's remaining IP free pool,

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> When ARIN has exhausted all of it's remaining IP free pool, for any

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> Once ARIN is no longer able to assign IPv4, there will be many smaller
> ISP's who never qualified for an initial allocation under section

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> LIR's diverge further and further from the yearly fees for allocations
> from the RIR's, LIR's will have small ISP's using multiple /24

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> Those small ISP's will be unable to get IPv4 from ARIN even if they

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> What this proposal attempts to do is give those small ISP's a chance

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> help small ISP's over the hump.

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Commentary to follow separately.

pt