[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4: RIR Principles

Wed May 29 00:04:34 EDT 2013

Andrew thanks for your feed back.

I want to point out that much of this language comes from either RFC-2050
or the current PDP or NRPM.  I tired to change the language as little as
possible, except where we have commonly agreed on new language such as
"efficient utilization" instead of conservation.  I thought that might be
the most uncontroversial starting point.  I am not opposed to changing it,
especially if it makes the text less controversial.

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WRT the LIR/ISP I agree, we should adopt whatever we think the standard
term should be.

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WRT using number resources instead of IP address space I would have to take
a careful look and make sure we are not applying principles that make sense
with respect IP addressing to ASNs if they don't make sense.   It is not
clear to me if you think these changes should be throughout the text, or
only in section 0.1.

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Andrew writes:
> I think this section [0.1. Efficient utilization based on need
(Conservation)]
> should have an explicit reference to the difference
> in conservation techniques for IPv4 and IPv6.  A proposed sentence might
> be something like this... "Conservation goals may vary due to the
> technical differences between IP number resources pools, for example the
> relatively limited size of the IPv4 address pool causes a desire to see
> the number space more highly utilized compared to the vast availability
> of IP numbers within the IPv6 address pool."

I made a conscious effort to keep this text in section 0.4 for clarity.

>From the draf policy section 0.4:
"For example, efficient utilization becomes a more prominent issue than
aggregation as the IPv4 free pool depletes and IPv4 resource availability
in any transfer market decreases. Conversely, because the IPv6 number space
is orders of magnitude larger than the IPv4 number space, the scale tips
away from efficient utilization towards hierarchical aggregation for IPv6
number resources."

Does that text fulfill your suggestion of "Conservation goals may vary due
to the technical differences between IP number resources pools, for example
the relatively limited size of the IPv4 address pool causes a desire to see
the number space more highly utilized compared to the vast availability of
IP numbers within the IPv6 address pool."

Do you have concerns about where this text is located?

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Andrew writes:
> "Utilization rate of address space will be an important factor in
> justifying need for IP number resources.  However, utilization rates
> will vary due to the technical differences (e.g. IPv4 vs. IPv6) between
> number resource pools."

Again, I made a conscious effort to keep this text in section 0.4 for
clarity, and would quote the same text.

Does that meet your concern about your proposed text?

Do you have concerns about where this text is located?

Should I repeat the paragraph in 0.1, 0.1.1, and 0.4?

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Andrew writes:
>> In order to promote increased usage of Internet number resources,
>> resource holders will be required to provide an accounting of
>> resources currently held demonstrating efficient utilization. Internet
>> number resources are valid as long as the criteria continues to be
>> met. The transfer of Internet number resources from one party to
>> another must be approved by the regional registries. The party trying
>> to obtain the resources must meet the same criteria as if they were
>> requesting resources directly from the IR.
>>
>> All Internet number resource requests are subject to audit and
>> verification by any means deemed appropriate by the regional registry.
>>
>
> I suspect the above two paragraphs may be lightning rods against the
> policy proposal.   May I suggest the following single paragraph in lieu
> of the above two paragraphs.
>
> In order meet the Principles and Goals of the Internet Registry System,
> resource holders may be required from time to time to provide an
> accounting and current usage of resources currently held.  The RIRs
> shall set policies to define these accounting mythologies as part of
> their community driven policy process.

I'm not sure why you think these two paragraphs are lightening rods.

RFC-250 3.3 says:
"To promote increased usage of address space, the registries will
  require an accounting of address space previously assigned to the
  enterprise, if any."

RFC-2050 3.1 says:

"IP addresses are valid as long as the criteria continues to be met."

RFC-2050 4.7 says

"The transfer of IP addresses from one party to another must be
  approved by the regional registries.  The party trying to obtain
  the IP address must meet the same criteria as if they were
  requesting an IP address directly from the IR."

RFC-2050 4.4 says:
"All IP address requests are subject to audit and verification
  by any means deemed appropriate by the regional registry."

And there is lots of text about conservation in RFC-2050 and
efficient utilization in the NRPM.

Can you elaborate on the lightening rod potin?

I can only guess you are suggesting that the community wants
to depart from the principles in RFC-2050, but think you must
mean something else.

What am I missing here?

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Andrew writes:
>> 0.2. Hierarchical aggregation (Routability)
>>
>> Policies for managing Internet number resources must support
>> distribution of globally unique Internet addresses in a hierarchical
>> manner, permitting the routing scalability of the addresses.
>
> Should the RIR's goals be "LISP agnostic"?  That is if LISP becomes the
> predominant routing methodology in the future, one would not necessarily
> expect the goals of the RIRs to change.
>
> Suggested change to end of first sentence.
>
> ... permitting the routing scalability of the addresses as required by
> the current technical limitations of global routing protocols.

I think this change is good even w/o considering LISP.
Imagine we have new holographic memory that can hold orders of
magnitude more data and decrease read time

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Andrew writes:
>
>> 0.3. Uniqueness (Registration)
>>
>> c) to ensure that a provider has exhausted a majority of
>> its current CIDR allocation, thereby justifying an additional
>> allocation d) to assist in IP allocation studies.
>
> Suggested revision for "C"
>
> to allow a LIR to demonstrate and disclose reassignment of IP number
> resources to third-parties

I think the point is to demonstrate reassignment data to
demonstrate efficient utilization.
But I also think that point is covered in section 0.1.1, So the rewrite
here is ok.

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Andrew writes:
> Perhaps add a statement specifically about Stewardship
>
> "Stewardship of IP number resources is the balance of overseeing and
> protecting the interests of all Internet stakeholders to further the
> development and expansion of the Internet and the Internet Registry
System."

I do not oppose this text.

Andrew also writes...
>
> justified need as a conflicting goal should be explicitly mentioned.
>
> "It should be noted that efficient utilization, justified need, and
>hierarchical aggregation are often conflicting goals."

I'm not sure this parses correctly...  This sounds to me like there are
conflicts between all three:

efficient utilization vs justified need vs hierarchical aggregation.

How about:
"It should be noted that efficient utilization based on justified need, and
hierarchical aggregation are often conflicting goals."

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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Andrew Dul <andrew.dul at quark.net> wrote:

> I support adding these guiding principles to the NRPM, furthermore I
> would support efforts to introduce this policy in all RIR regions to
> make this a global policy.
>
> Comments on the proposed text in-line below.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 5/17/2013 9:53 AM, ARIN wrote:
> > Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4
> > RIR Principles
> >
> > On 16 May 2013 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-187
> > RIR Principles" as a Draft Policy.
> >
> > Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4 is below and can be found at:
> > https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2013_4.html
> >
> >
> > ## * ##
> >
> >
> > Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4
> > RIR Principles
> >
> > Date: 17 May 2013
> >
> > Problem Statement:
> >
> > The original text in RFC 2050 both "describes the registry system for
> > the distribution of globally unique Internet address space and
> > registry operations" and provides "rules and guidelines [principles]
> > governing the distribution of this address space."
> >
> > The currently proposed update (RFC2050bis) "provides information about
> > the current Internet Numbers Registry System used in the distribution
> > of globally unique Internet Protocol (IP) address space and autonomous
> > system (AS) numbers" and "provides information about the processes for
> > further evolution of the Internet Numbers Registry System."
> >
> > This means that the guiding principles of stewardship are not
> > currently being carried forward into the new document. The goals of
> > Conservation (efficient utilization based on need), Routability
> > (hierarchical aggregation), and Registration (uniqueness) are as
> > important, if not more so, now that the transition to IPv6 is upon us.
> > This can be rectified by documenting these principles in RIR policy.
> >
> > Policy Statement:
> >
> > Section 0: Principles and Goals of the Internet Registry System
> >
> > 0.1. Efficient utilization based on need (Conservation)
> >
> > Policies for managing Internet number resources must support fair
> > distribution of globally unique Internet address space according to
> > the operational needs of the end-users and Internet Service Providers
> > operating networks using this address space. The registry should
> > prevent stockpiling in order to maximize the conservation and
> > efficient utilization of the Internet address space.
>
> This section should use the new proposed convention of "LIR/ISP" as
> being developed in ARIN-2013-5.
>
> s/this address space/IP number resources/r
> s/Internet address space/IP number resources/r
>
> I think this section should have an explicit reference to the difference
> in conservation techniques for IPv4 and IPv6.  A proposed sentence might
> be something like this... "Conservation goals may vary due to the
> technical differences between IP number resources pools, for example the
> relatively limited size of the IPv4 address pool causes a desire to see
> the number space more highly utilized compared to the vast availability
> of IP numbers within the IPv6 address pool."
>
> >
> > 0.1.1. Documented Justified Need (Needs Based)
> >
> > Assignment of Internet number resources is based on documented
> > operational need. Utilization rate of address space will be a key
> > factor in number resource assignment. To this end, registrants should
> > have documented justified need available for each assignment.
> > Organizations will be assigned resources based on immediate
> > utilization plus expected utilization.
>
> Utilization rate is much more important for IPv4 than IPv6.
>
> Suggested revision for "Utilization rate of address space will be a key
> factor in number resource assignment."
>
> "Utilization rate of address space will be an important factor in
> justifying need for IP number resources.  However, utilization rates
> will vary due to the technical differences (e.g. IPv4 vs. IPv6) between
> number resource pools."
>
> >
> > In order to promote increased usage of Internet number resources,
> > resource holders will be required to provide an accounting of
> > resources currently held demonstrating efficient utilization. Internet
> > number resources are valid as long as the criteria continues to be
> > met. The transfer of Internet number resources from one party to
> > another must be approved by the regional registries. The party trying
> > to obtain the resources must meet the same criteria as if they were
> > requesting resources directly from the IR.
> >
> > All Internet number resource requests are subject to audit and
> > verification by any means deemed appropriate by the regional registry.
> >
>
> I suspect the above two paragraphs may be lightning rods against the
> policy proposal.   May I suggest the following single paragraph in lieu
> of the above two paragraphs.
>
> In order meet the Principles and Goals of the Internet Registry System,
> resource holders may be required from time to time to provide an
> accounting and current usage of resources currently held.  The RIRs
> shall set policies to define these accounting mythologies as part of
> their community driven policy process.
>
>
> > 0.2. Hierarchical aggregation (Routability)
> >
> > Policies for managing Internet number resources must support
> > distribution of globally unique Internet addresses in a hierarchical
> > manner, permitting the routing scalability of the addresses. This
> > scalability is necessary to ensure proper operation of Internet
> > routing, although it must be stressed that routability is in no way
> > guaranteed with the allocation or assignment of IPv4 addresses.
> >
>
> Should the RIR's goals be "LISP agnostic"?  That is if LISP becomes the
> predominant routing methodology in the future, one would not necessarily
> expect the goals of the RIRs to change.
>
> Suggested change to end of first sentence.
>
> ... permitting the routing scalability of the addresses as required by
> the current technical limitations of global routing protocols.
>
> > 0.3. Uniqueness (Registration)
> >
> > Provision of a public registry documenting Internet number resource
> > allocation, reallocation, assignment, and reassignment is necessary to:
> >
> > a) ensure uniqueness and to to provide operational staff with
> > information on who is using the number resource b) to provide a
> > contact in case of operational/security problems (e.g. Law
> > Enforcement) c) to ensure that a provider has exhausted a majority of
> > its current CIDR allocation, thereby justifying an additional
> > allocation d) to assist in IP allocation studies.
>
> Suggested revision for "C"
>
> to allow a LIR to demonstrate and disclose reassignment of IP number
> resources to third-parties
>
> >
> > It is imperative that reassignment information be submitted in a
> > prompt and efficient manner to facilitate database maintenance and
> > ensure database integrity.
> >
> > 0.4. Stewardship
> >
> > It should be noted that efficient utilization and hierarchical
> > aggregation are often conflicting goals. All the above goals may
> > sometimes be in conflict with the interests of individual end-users or
> > Internet Service Providers. Care must be taken to ensure balance with
> > these conflicting goals given the resource availability, relative size
> > of the resource, and number resource specific technical dynamics, for
> > each type of number resource. For example, efficient utilization
> > becomes a more prominent issue than aggregation as the IPv4 free pool
> > depletes and IPv4 resource availability in any transfer market
> > decreases. Conversely, because the IPv6 number space is orders of
> > magnitude larger than the IPv4 number space, the scale tips away from
> > efficient utilization towards hierarchical aggregation for IPv6 number
> > resources.
>
> Perhaps add a statement specifically about Stewardship
>
> "Stewardship of IP number resources is the balance of overseeing and
> protecting the interests of all Internet stakeholders to further the
> development and expansion of the Internet and the Internet Registry
> System."
>
> Also...
>
> justified need as a conflicting goal should be explicitly mentioned.
>
> "It should be noted that efficient utilization, justified need, and
> hierarchical aggregation are often conflicting goals."
>
> Use the new LIR/ISP convention instead of "Internet Service Providers"
>
>
>
> >
> > Comments:
> >
> > a. Timetable for implementation: immediately
> >
> > b. I believe that it would be beneficial for IANA to adopt these
> > principles as well, and encourage the community to consider a global
> > policy proposal.
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