[arin-ppml] LAST CALL for Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2015-3: Remove 30 day utilization requirement in end-user IPv4 policy
Mueller, Milton L
milton at gatech.edu
Sun May 15 17:32:16 EDT 2016
If the IPs are in the free pool, or available on the transfer
market doesn't change the fact that the numbers are a
limited and shared resource whose value comes from
the insurance that the resource holder has exclusive
claim to a unique set of numbers. In fact I would argue
that the supply of IPs are more limited now then they
ever were, especially for large blocks, and especially
for organizations that have been priced out of the
market and as such stewardship is even more
important.
MM: whether we are dealing with a free pool or a transfer market makes a world of difference.
Would you please address the two straightforward arguments that have already been made about that, instead of ignoring them and hoping they will go away?
1. Transfers are rationed by price. Free pool assignments are not. Stringent needs assessment can be justified when there is no price, because there is no other way of conserving. As for your comment about those “priced out of the market,” superimposing stringent needs assessment does NOT lower the price for anyone. It probably raises it.
2. Numbers that are put into the transfer market are not, by definition, truly needed by the holder. Therefore, (as long as a network operator is involved) a transfer implies a movement from a less-needed to a more-needed use – regardless of whether some kind of administrative needs assessment was performed by ARIN.
I look forward to your engagement on the real issues. I really am curious as to what answer you might make to these.
Dr. Milton L. Mueller
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Organizations that have "delusions of grandeur" and
purchase "extra" IPs will not necessarily "pay dearly".
Sure it is a costly mistake to buy what turns out to be
a 50 year supply of addresses. But the real window
is between the two years which is currently permitted
and the day when IPv6 has wide spread adoption
such that a transit provider can offer IPv6-only service
and their customers are not inconvenienced, and
content providers can offer IPv6-only service and not
risk losing customers that cannot reach them.
The goal is to have enough IPv4 addresses to get
through the transition period to when there is wide
spread support of IPv6, and if you can't secure that
much, than at least more that your competition in a
given market segment such that you don't have a
competitive disadvantage of offering a service that
can reach "most of the internet" and if it can reach
the IPv4-only Internet is will be through costly, and
possibly performance and security impacting
translation middle boxes.
A small overage such as buying an 8 year supply
when you only need a 4 year supply is easily
justified as an insurance policy and preferable
to having bought a 4 year supply when you needed
an 8 year supply.
Nobody complains at the end of the year that they
wasted a bunch of money on health insurance and
didn't get sick all year.
___Jason
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com<mailto:owen at delong.com>> wrote:
I see the policy itself largely as a no-op. I have no objection for it going to the board,
nor do I have any significant support for it to do so.
Owen
On May 12, 2016, at 18:53 , David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu<mailto:farmer at umn.edu>> wrote:
Jason,
Even though the last call period formally ended May 9th, I try my best
to consider all feedback received for a policy even following the
formal last call deadline, and while I can't speak for directly for
other AC members, I believe most of them do the same. However, when
feedback comes in late sometimes it might not get full consideration,
especially if it comes in immediately prior to one of our conference
calls. To help avoid this I explicitly noted when AC would be
considering the feedback. I will additionally note at this point it
is extremely important to get any additional feedback in ASAP to allow
the AC due time for its consideration prior to its May 19th conference
call.
As for the issues and questions you have raise, I believe John and
Richard have been answering your questions. Further, I believe the
community consensus remains to move forward with removing the 25%
Immediate (30 day) use requirement for end users as this policy
suggests. I would specifically ask anyone who disagrees and thinks we
need to consider the issues more to speak up ASAP.
Thanks.
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Jason Schiller <jschiller at google.com<mailto:jschiller at google.com>> wrote:
I seem to have missed the this thread in last call, and hope you
will consider the discussion on the other thread: " Re: [arin-ppml]
ARIN-2015-3:(remove 30-day...) Staff interpretation needed"
I maintain that the 30-day [60-day for transfers] check has
been useful in mitigating abusively large requests, and
without it there is no teeth in the policy to prevent abuse.
I asked if I was wrong about this, please explain what
mechanisms are in place to mitigate an end-user asking for
approval for a 10 year supply of addresses on the grounds that
if things go really really well, it will only be a 2 year supply?
I heard no response to indicate there was any mechanism.
I asked staff about information about stats that might help
determine what level of push back ARIN provides against two
year projected need in general, and if that push back would be
sufficient to prevent outlandishly large claims.
We found that 50% - 75% of all requests are approved with
past utilization more heavily weighed.
It remains unclear what level of oversight ARIN has to
question future looking projections. John Curran provided
some text about approvals of future looking projections.
"When we [ARIN] ask organization for their forward
projections, we [ARIN] also ask them to provide details
to show how they've arrived at their projections. We [ARIN]
take into account factors such as new networks, locations,
products, services they plan on offering (and this includes
consideration of anticipated address utilization within the
first 30 days for end-users.)
From the text John provided it seems one could get IP
addresses solely on future looking plans which are
unverifiable. As such an end-user could easily get a 10
year supply of addresses simply by providing very
optimistic deployment plans for the next 24 months.
I asked if I was not wrong about this, then did people realize
that this policy is basically an end-run around giving out
addresses based on need when they voted to move this
policy forward?
I heard no response to this.
Thanks,
__Jason
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:45 AM, David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu<mailto:farmer at umn.edu>> wrote:
As shepherd for this policy I welcome any additional last call
feedback for this policy. It is especially important to speak up if
you feel there are any issues remaining that need to be considered.
But, even if you simply support the policy as written that is
important and useful feedback as well.
The last call period formally continues through, Monday, May 9th, and
the AC will consider the feedback during its scheduled call on
Thursday, May 19th.
Thanks
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:38 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net<mailto:info at arin.net>> wrote:
The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 20 April 2016 and decided to
send the following to last call:
Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2015-3: Remove 30 day utilization
requirement in end-user IPv4 policy
Feedback is encouraged during the last call period. All comments should
be provided to the Public Policy Mailing List. This last call will
expire on 9 May 2016. After last call the AC will conduct their
last call review.
The draft policy text is below and available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/
The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
Regards,
Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
## * ##
Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2015-3
Remove 30 day utilization requirement in end-user IPv4 policy
AC's assessment of conformance with the Principles of Internet Number
Resource Policy:
ARIN 2015-3 contributes to fair and impartial number resource
administration
by removing from the NRPM text that is operationally unrealistic for the
reasons discussed in the problem statement. This proposal is technically
sound, in that the removal of the text will more closely align with the
way
staff applies the existing policy in relation to 8.3 transfers. There
was
strong community support for the policy on PPML and at ARIN 36, which
was
confirmed at ARIN 37. There was a suggestion to replace this text with
an
alternate requirement. However, the community consensus was to move
forward
with the removal alone.
The staff and legal review also suggested removing RFC2050 references
and
pointed out that 4.2.3.6 has an additional 25% immediate use clause,
community feedback was to deal with those issues separately.
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.
Third, this policy text applies to additional address space requests. It
is
incompatible with the requirements of other additional address space
request
justification which indicates that 80% utilization of existing space is
sufficient to justify new space. If a block is at 80%, then often
(almost
always?) the remaining 80% will be used over the next 30 days and
longer.
Therefore the operator cannot honestly state they will use 25% of the
ADDITIONAL space within 30 days of receiving it; they're still trying to
use
their older block efficiently.
Fourth, in the face of ARIN exhaustion, some ISPs are starting to not
give
out /24 (or larger) blocks. So the justification for the 25% rule that
previously existed (and in fact, applied for many years) is no longer
germane.
Policy statement:
Remove the 25% utilization criteria bullet point from NRPM 4.3.3.
Resulting text:
4.3.3. Utilization rate
Utilization rate of address space is a key factor in justifying a new
assignment of IP address space. Requesters must show exactly how
previous
address assignments have been utilized and must provide appropriate
details
to verify their one-year growth projection.
The basic criterion that must be met is a 50% utilization rate within
one
year.
A greater utilization rate may be required based on individual network
requirements. Please refer to RFC 2050 for more information on
utilization
guidelines.
Comments:
a.Timetable for implementation: Immediate
b.Anything else
#####
ARIN STAFF ASSESSMENT
Draft Policy ARIN-2015-3
Remove 30 day utilization requirement in end-user IPv4 policy
Date of Assessment: 16 February 2016
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1. Summary (Staff Understanding)
This proposal would remove the 25% utilization (within 30 days of
issuance)
criteria bullet point from NRPM 4.3.3.
___
2. Comments
A. ARIN Staff Comments
This policy would more closely align with the way staff applies the
existing
policy in relation to 8.3 transfers. Because there is no longer an IPv4
free
pool and many IPv4 requests are likely to be satisfied by 8.3 transfers,
the
adoption of this policy should have no major impact on operations and
could
be implemented as written.
Note that both NRPM 4.3.3 and NRPM 4.2.3.6 contain references to
obsolete
RFC 2050. Additionally, 4.2.3.6 references the 25% immediate use (within
30
days of issuance) requirement.
Staff suggests removing the first two sentences of 4.2.3.6 to remove the
references to RFC 2050 and the 25% requirement. Additionally, staff
suggests
removing the reference to the obsolete RFC 2050 in section 4.3.3.
B. ARIN General Counsel – Legal Assessment
No material legal risk in this policy.
___
3. Resource Impact
This policy would have minimal resource impact from an implementation
aspect. It is estimated that implementation would occur immediately
after
ratification by the ARIN Board of Trustees. The following would be
needed in
order to implement:
* Updated guidelines and internal procedures
* Staff training
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