[arin-ppml] Draft Policy 2010-2: /24 End User Minimum Assignment Unit - Correct Title

[William Herrin]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> As I understand the NRPM, this proposal would enable customers who can justify
> a need for 128 or more IP addresses and who are multihomed to get a /24. It would
> not enable customers with, say, 8 addresses to get a /24 from ARIN, even though
> they can get a /24 from one of their upstream providers.

Hi Owen,

The governing language is in NRPM 4.3.3 which reads:

    * A 25% immediate utilization rate, and
    * A 50% utilization rate within one year.

So that's 64 addresses now and an additional 64 within one year.
Except of course, nobody will check in a year to see if you used an
additional 64 addresses.


IMHO, 4.3.3 should probably be tightened up a bit as we approach free
pool depletion, perhaps to something like "50% now and 75% in a year"
or maybe just "50% now" since we probably aren't going to check in
with end-users in a year anyway. Allowing assignments at the /24 level
will help us do that since it would no longer have the effect of
putting the minimum assignment size out of reach for small multihomed
orgs in the "couple hundred people" category.


> Thus, this policy only opens up ARIN PI /24s to a subset of those that can currently
> get PA /24s, and, not everyone.  While I would support a policy that had parity with
> the PA /24 policy for direct assignments from ARIN, I think such a policy would be
> far less likely to achieve community consensus at this time.

Concur. Also, I'd like to see whether any problems (e.g. fraud) crop
up at this proposal's level so that they can be corrected before
attempting for full parity with NRPM 4.2.3.6.

I don't anticipate any problems. ARIN's IPv4 process remains arcane
enough to do a solid job keeping those without a genuine need at bay.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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