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

[John Springer]

Thanks, Matt

This is precisely the subject on which I hoped to get community feedback.

John Springer

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Matthew Petach wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> The AC will evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance
>> 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
>>
>> The ARIN Policy Development Process (PDP) can be found at:
>> https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
>>
>> Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
>> https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Communications and Member Services
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>>
>>
>> ## * ##
>>
>>
>> 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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