[arin-ppml] Final draft of 2010-13 for Atlanta (Rev 1.55)

[Chris Grundemann]

I think the fact that ARIN Staff is concerned that this policy may
favor organizations who are granted reservations too much and Marty
believes that it does not go far enough to provide relief to those
same organizations illustrates that we have actually found a pretty
decent compromise.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 15:55, Hannigan, Martin <marty at akamai.com> wrote:
>
> This proposal still does not go far enough in offering some level of relief
> to all segments of the industry.

The simple fact is that we are running out of IPv4 space. Absolutely
no policy can change that. Advancing transition to IPv6 across the
board is the best way (perhaps the only way) to ease all of our
growing pains going forward.

> On 9/27/10 4:02 PM, "ARIN" <info at arin.net> wrote:
>>
>>   A.    ARIN Staff Comments
>>
>>    € Section 4.10.2 suggests that all allocations made under this policy
>> will initially be made from a 3-year reservation.  In light of the
>> imminent depletion of IPv4 address space, it doesn't seem fair to allow
>> some organizations to retain/reserve this valuable resource for up to 3
>> years while others will be denied.

I would like to point out that although the initial reservations are
for [now two years], there is a built in "fairness valve" as well.
Please see section 4.10.2.1 in the draft policy, which starts thus:

	Reservations will be accepted from the time that this policy
	is adopted until the day that ARIN can no longer fill regular requests from
	space allocated to ARIN by IANA. At that time, if necessary, all reservations
	will be reduced by an equal amount to allow them to fit within
	the total space available in the transition pool.

So everyone who is granted a reservation before run-out gets *some*
reservation, although it is not likely that anyone will get the full
reservation requested. I think this is the best balance of
predictability and inclusiveness possible.

Also note the second phase, post-exhaustion, detailed in section
4.10.2.2 which reads:

	Reservation requests received after ARIN free pool depletion
	as defined in 4.10.2.1 will not be guaranteed. If approved, such
	requests will be placed in a queue. As space becomes available in
	the transition pool it will be used to provide allotments to
	organizations with reservations in the queue on a first-approved
	first-served basis. Partially filled allotments will remain at the
	front of the queue.

So, *everyone* gets a shot at the transition space, and it comes down
to how much space ends up being available.

Overall, I think we have come up with the best possible (most fair)
soft-landing policy under the current constraints (constraints which
will only get tighter).

~Chris

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