[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-3: Remove 30 day utilization requirement in end-user IPv4 policy

[William Herrin]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:58 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> Draft Policy ARIN-2015-3
> Remove 30 day utilization requirement in end-user IPv4 policy

> Policy statement:
>
> Remove the 25% utilization criteria bullet point from NRPM 4.3.3.

> Problem Statement:
>
> End-user policy is intended to provide end-users with a one year supply of
> IP addresses. Qualification for a one-year supply requires the network
> operator to utilize at least 25% of the requested addresses within 30 days.
> This text is unrealistic and should be removed.
>
> First, it often takes longer than 30 days to stage equipment and start
> actually using the addresses.
>
> Second, growth is often not that regimented; the forecast is to use X
> addresses over the course of a year, not to use 25% of X within 30 days.

Opposed.

The intention is that an end-user requesting address space already
have an operational network. Some or all of the 25% utilization will
be achieved by renumbering a subset of services out of
provider-assigned address space.

"End user must already operate a real network" is hard to write up in
policy language. "25%" is much easier define and accomplishes a
comparable goal.

Regards,
Bill Herrin




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