[arin-ppml] Draft Policy 2009-7: Open Access To IPv6

[Stephen Sprunk]

Morgan Sackett wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Member Services wrote:
>>> 1. Proposal Summary (Staff Understanding)
>>>
>>> This policy proposal would modify NRPM section 6.5.1.1 by removing
>>> all or part of two initial criteria from the the existing IPv6
>>> policy: the requirement to advertise the single aggregate and the
>>> requirement to plan on making 200 end site assignments to customers
>>> or be a known ISP in the ARIN region. The only remaining criteria to
>>> qualify for an IPv6 allocation are to be an LIR/ISP, not be an end
>>> site, and plan on providing IPv6 connectivity to organizations and
>>> assigning them IPv6 address space.
>>
>> I SUPPORT this policy.
>>
>> If there is concern of gaming/abusing this, then I suggest adding a
>> clause requiring an existing IPv4 number resource from ARIN in order to
>> obtain your /32.
> I think adding this sort of requirement is disadvantageous to newer
> small networks trying to obtain IP space, especially those looking to
> do IPv6 only.  It will also force the policy to require modification
> as the available v4 space runs out.
>

I agree on the above-proposed modification for the same reason; the cure
is worse than the disease.

That said, though, I must OPPOSE the original (i.e. unmodified as above)
proposal because I think that an operator without even a "plan" for
making N assignments and/or who will not be advertising an aggregate for
their allocation should not qualify.

I might accept lowering N, if someone can present a specific example of
an org which has not qualified because 200 customers is not reasonable
for its circumstances, but I cannot support any proposal that removes
the bar entirely and/or removes the aggregation requirement.  It's bad
enough that we only require a "plan", which is easily BSed, though at
least 2007-14 implements consequences five years down the road if the
plan has not resulted in N customers by that time.

(This also shows the problem with having two or more orthogonal policy
changes in a single proposal.)

S

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