[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-159 IPv6 Subsequent Allocations Utilization Requirement

[Aaron Hughes]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:50:09PM -0500, Scott Leibrand wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Aaron Hughes <aaronh at bind.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:20:42AM -0800, Scott Leibrand wrote:
> >> Is there any limit to how big such tie downs could be?
> >
> > Scott,
> >
> > There is no limit in this proposal as it is meant to work for any size provider.
> >
> > Keep in mind, this is for subsequent requests so it assumes they have already been approved for an initial allocation based on some assignment plan. ARIN staff is more than capable of sniffing out abusers vs those that are allocating to plan and have simply outgrown their initial allocation. There is no written limit proposed since there are folks who will tie down large amounts of space. If we were $very_large_provider and had, hypothetically, /32 tie downs in each location for (let's say) /48s for DSL/Cable customers, they would have already been approved for something like a /28 or /24, so it would not be unreasonable to request more without the % utilization IMHO.
> >
> > On the other hand, if they were $small_provider, had 10 regions of 1000 customers (/48s) and tied down /36s, when they reached 15 regions, it would be perfectly reasonable to request an additional /32, but not a /28 or /24 without more justification than I am simply utilized to plan. (Clearly 1000/4096 is not considered utilized by current utilization definition in the NRPM and should be.)
> >
> > Also keep in mind we are collectively advising people to make a 10 year plan and get over the IPv4 mindset. This means we should not have to plan for all regional/groupings of tie downs to get to 80% utilization at the same time.
> 
> I get that, and agree with the intent.  I'm only worried that someone
> might get approved for an initial allocation (say /32), do a /32
> tiedown, allocate a /48 from it, request a subsequent allocation,
> rinse, repeat.  If we can somehow make sure that the policy only
> allows for "reasonable" tie-downs, that would address my concern.

I really wish we could write policy to help people rather than worrying about abusers of policy. This is IPv6. Anyone can write a plan and get some. I am sure ARIN staff can figure out a way to manage abuse. 

In the past, words such as "reasonable" have been removed from policy proposal text by legal and staff review due to the action being ambiguous. I have written this is simple, plain English with the intent to help out those who are living by our advice. 

I do not know what the proper channels are for ARIN to protect both ARIN and the community from abuse. Perhaps the AC and ARIN staff can discuss and remove the burden from the community to address abuse.

Thanks for the support of the intent.

Cheers,
Aaron


> 
> -Scott

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