[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2012-6: Revising Section 4.4 C/I Reserved Pool Size

[David Farmer]

On 9/20/12 16:19 CDT, Chris Grundemann wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:18 PM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>> On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>>>> On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Are statistics for the number of Critical Infrastructure requests and
>>>>> assignments over the past year (or longer) easily accessible
>>>>> somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> The raw data on the assignments made is available here:
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.arin.net/knowledge/micro_allocations.html>
>>>
>>> Is there data on _when_ they were handed out? E.g. How many
>>> assignments were made each month, and each year, for the past 12-18
>>> months and 3-5 years?
>>
>> We haven't traditionally produced summary statistics for the critical infrastructure
>> assignments, but they do appear both in Whois as well as the "Raw Historical Delegation"
>> files <https://www.arin.net/knowledge/statistics/rir.html> with the date of assignment.
>>
>> Do you want ARIN to produce a historic summary of these assignments?
>
> Not on my account. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't already
> producing them before I built my own.

I think I agree with Chris on this, I'm not sure it is worth going back 
and producing new data.  The crux of the argument to expand the 
reservation isn't that we think the current /16 reservation wasn't large 
enough based on historical usage.  Between EPs and DNS there is less 
that 1.5 /16s of CI allocated currently.  So from a historical point of 
view a /16 seems like plenty.

However, the crux of the argument to expand the reservation is that the 
potential new TLDs ICANN is talking about could create unprecedented 
demand for CI allocations right at the time we may be out of IPv4.  So, 
while such data probably would be nice, it would neither support or 
refute the crux of the argument regarding this policy, in my opinion.

Thanks
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