[arin-ppml] Policy discussion - Method of calculating utilization

[Jeffrey Lyon]

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:33 AM, John Santos <JOHN at egh.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2014, Jimmy Hess wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Leif Sawyer <lsawyer at gci.com> wrote:
>> > On behalf of myself, I support this proposal.
>> > On behalf of my company, which finds itself in the position
>> > of 8 large allocations above 93% and 1 small allocation below the 80% mark,
>> > I support this proposal.
>>
>> I believe there should be both a  per-allocation utilization minimum
>> and an aggregate utilization criterion.
>>
>> I also suggest a step-up in the utilization requirement:  the minimum
>> utilization criterion to say you are using the space efficiently
>> should be upped to 95% usage demonstrated, not 80%. It has been shown
>> that such efficient utilization is possible   and provides better
>> conservation of IP address space.
>
> I think 95% is too high, if the previous example of 3 /24's at 100% and
> 1 /24 at 75% is realistic.  That works out to 93.75% aggregate utilization,
> not quite reaching the bar, so 90% might be a better threshold.
>
> OTOH, /24's are pretty small and maybe that example was just for
> illustration.  If people really in this situation have much larger
> allocations, they would be easier to slice and dice and thus use (relatively)
> efficiently.  75% of a /24 leaves just 64 addresses (a /26) unused, which
> even if contiguous are hard to redeploy for some other use.  75% of a /16
> would leave 16384 unused addresses, which could be utilized much more easily.
>
>
> Personally, I don't much care since my company has its /24, and that's
> probably all the IPv4 we'll ever need :-)
>
>
> --
> John Santos
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I would argue that 80% aggregate is too high, but that is an entirely
different discussion.

Attaining high levels of utilization is very difficult for service
providers. Customers often want, and properly justify, larger
assignments. These requests are often difficult to fill when
assignments are heavily fragmented for other customers only requiring
/30's or /29's. This leaves us with a condition where some allocations
are used more heavily than others depending on its specific purpose
within the organization.

My intent with this proposal was not to question the merits of the
current policies surrounding utilization, but rather to fix what I
deem an inefficiency in the current system which ends up being a huge
drain on ARIN's and the member's time. To illustrate what I mean by
this, each of my last few requests for resources have taken several
days longer because ARIN employees are trying to figure out if the
last assignment is used at 80% when all the space is aggregate is
clearly over 90%.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Lyon, CISSP-ISSMP
Fellow, Black Lotus Communications
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