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

[Bill Darte]

Of course ARIN staff will be looking at your proposal from an edits and
understandability point of view.

Cathy Arnson and I will be shepherding this proposal on behalf of the AC
and the community at large.

My initial thoughts are operational and definitional....

"When ARIN has reached 90% allocation of it's remaining IP free
pool"....for instance.
free pool would have to be defined a bit more precisely and of course,
that 90% threshold may vary even during a request being processed with
returns, etc.

Could this proposal trigger the change in mimimum assignment during the
process of receiving the next IANA allocation? What happens then?

IF the last /8 that ARIN could get existed as a free pool, then as the
process described in this proposal takes shape, there would only be
4200+ /20s available, but given that any size of allocation/assignment
request may come in, it is entirely possible thresholds of 90%, 95% and
97% might get crossed rather quickly.....

Additionally, when a given threshold is met, it is increasingly likely
that a single large and justified request could wipe out the entire free
pool without other 'end times' policy as have been/are being proposed
and considered.

I'd be interested to hear other members of the community comment.

bd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net 
> [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:49 PM
> To: Pete Templin
> Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Last Minute 
> Assistance for Small ISPs
> 
> My it's got the sh its, eh? ;-)
> 
> Damn, I always make that mistake!
> 
> Thanks
> Ted
> 
> Pete Templin wrote:
> > 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,"
> > 
> > s/it's/its/
> > 
> >> When ARIN has reached 90% allocation of it's remaining IP 
> free pool,
> > 
> > s/it's/its/
> > 
> >> When ARIN has reached 95% allocation of it's remaining IP 
> free pool,
> > 
> > s/it's/its/
> > 
> >> When ARIN has reached 97% allocation of it's remaining IP 
> free pool,
> > 
> > s/it's/its/
> > 
> >> When ARIN has exhausted all of it's remaining IP free pool, for any
> > 
> > s/it's/its/
> > 
> >> 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
> > 
> > s/ISP's/ISPs/
> > 
> >> 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
> > 
> > s/LIR's/LIRs/; s/RIR's/RIRs/; s/ISP's/ISPs/
> > 
> >> Those small ISP's will be unable to get IPv4 from ARIN even if they
> > 
> > s/ISP's/ISPs/
> > 
> >> What this proposal attempts to do is give those small 
> ISP's a chance
> > 
> > s/ISP's/ISPs/
> > 
> >> help small ISP's over the hump.
> > 
> > s/ISP's/ISPs/
> > 
> > 
> > Commentary to follow separately.
> > 
> > pt
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