[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10: Minimum IPv6 Assignments

[Matthew Petach]

OPPOSED

How I subdivide and allocate addresses
internally and downstream is not a matter
for the community to vote on; that's between
me and my customers.

Matt


On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10
> Minimum IPv6 Assignments
>
> On 17 September 2015 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-224
> Minimum IPv6 Assignments" as a Draft Policy.
>
> Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10 is below and can be found at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_10.html
>
> You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft
> Policy 2015-10 on the Public Policy Mailing List.
>
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> of this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource
> Policy as stated in the PDP. Specifically, these principles are:
>
>    * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
>    * Technically Sound
>    * Supported by the Community
>
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>
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> Regards,
>
> Communications and Member Services
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>
>
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>
>
> Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10
> Minimum IPv6 Assignments
>
> Date: 23 September 2015
>
> Problem Statement:
>
> ISPs may believe that they have an incentive to obtain smaller blocks than
> they really need, and once they receive their allocation may subsequently
> issue blocks smaller than their customers may need in the future. This
> policy seeks to encourage the correct behavior by reiterating the smallest
> reasonable sub-allocation size and by discounting any space which has been
> subdivided more finely from any future utilization analysis.
>
> Policy statement:
>
> Modify section 2.15 from "When applied to IPv6 policies, the term "provider
> assignment unit" shall mean the prefix of the smallest block a given ISP
> assigns to end sites (recommended /48)." to "When applied to IPv6 policies,
> the term "provider assignment unit" shall mean the prefix of the smallest
> block a given ISP assigns to end sites. A /48 is recommended as this
> smallest block size. In no case shall a provider assignment unit for the
> purpose of this policy be smaller than /56."
>
> Modify section 2.16.1 from "A provider assignment unit shall be considered
> fully utilized when it is assigned to an end-site" to "A provider assignment
> unit shall be considered fully utilized when it is assigned in full (or as
> part of a larger aggregate) to a single end-site. If a provider assignment
> unit (which shall be no smaller than /56) is split and assigned to multiple
> end-sites that entire provider assignment unit shall be considered NOT
> utilized."
>
> Comments:
> Timetable for implementation: IMMEDIATE
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