[arin-ppml] LAST CALL for Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-6: Eliminate HD-Ratio from NRPM

Wed Nov 2 13:26:57 EDT 2016

Support. 

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:13:03PM -0400, ARIN wrote:
> The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 21 October 2016 and decided to send
> Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-6: Eliminate HD-Ratio from NRPM to Last
> Call:
> 
> The AC provided the following statement to the community:
> 
> This proposal is technically sound and enables fair and impartial number
> policy by reducing any confusion caused by HD-Ratio remaining in the NRPM.
> According to the staff and legal assessment, these changes align with
> current practice of ARIN staff. There is support and no concerns have been
> raised by the community regarding this proposal on PPML. During the Public
> Policy Meeting at ARIN 38 in Dallas, a concern was raised regarding the
> inclusion of comments on the fee structure in the policy statement. To
> address this issue an editorial change has been made while sending the
> policy to Last Call, removing the following unnecessary text from the
> proposed section 6.5.9.2, "(both policy and fee structure) unless or until
> the board adopts a specific more favorable fee structure for community
> networks."
> 
> 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
> November 2016. After Last Call, the AC will conduct their Last Call review.
> 
> The full 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-2016-6: Eliminate HD-Ratio from NRPM
> 
> AC's assessment of conformance with the Principles of Internet Number
> Resource Policy:
> 
> This proposal is technically sound and enables fair and impartial number
> policy by reducing any confusion caused by HD-Ratio remaining in the NRPM.
> According to the staff and legal assessment, these changes align with
> current practice of ARIN staff. There is support and no concerns have been
> raised by the community regarding this proposal on PPML.
> 
> Problem Statement:
> 
> The HD-Ratio has become an anachronism in the NRPM and some of the vestigial
> references to it create confusion about recommended prefix sizes for IPv6
> resulting in a belief in the community that ARIN endorses the idea of /56s
> as a unit of measure in IPv6 assignments. While there are members of the
> community that believe a /56 is a reasonable choice, ARIN policy has always
> allowed and still supports /48 prefixes for any and all end-sites without
> need for further justification. More restrictive choices are still permitted
> under policy as well. This proposal does not change that, but it attempts to
> eliminate some possible confusion.
> 
> The last remaining vestigial references to HD-Ratio are contained in the
> community networks policy (Section 6.5.9). This policy seeks to replace
> 6.5.9 with new text incorporating end user policy by reference (roughly
> equivalent to the original intent of 6.5.9 prior to the more recent changes
> to end-user policy). While this contains a substantial rewrite to the
> Community Networks policy, it will not have any negative impact on community
> networks. It may increase the amount of IPv6 space a community network could
> receive due to the change from HD-Ratio, but not more than any other similar
> sized end-user would receive under existing policy.
> 
> Policy statement:
> 
> Replace section 6.5.9 in its entirety as follows:
> 
> 6.5.9 Community Network Assignments
> 
> While community networks would normally be considered to be ISP type
> organizations under existing ARIN criteria, they tend to operate on much
> tighter budgets and often depend on volunteer labor. As a result, they tend
> to be much smaller and more communal in their organization rather than
> provider/customer relationships of commercial ISPs. This section seeks to
> provide policy that is more friendly to those environments by allowing them
> to use end-user criteria.
> 
> 6.5.9.1 Qualification Criteria
> 
> To qualify under this section, a community network must demonstrate to
> ARIN’s satisfaction that it meets the definition of a community network
> under section 2.11 of the NRPM.
> 
> 6.5.9.2 Receiving Resources
> 
> Once qualified under this section, a community network shall be treated as
> an end-user assignment for all ARIN purposes.
> 
> Community networks shall be eligible under this section only for IPv6
> resources and the application process and use of those resources shall be
> governed by the existing end-user policy contained in section 6.5.8 et. seq.
> 
> Community networks seeking other resources shall remain subject to the
> policies governing those resources independent of their election to use this
> policy for IPv6 resources.
> 
> Delete section 2.8 — This section is non-operative and conflicts with the
> definitions of utilization contained in current policies.
> 
> Delete section 2.9 — This section is no longer operative.
> 
> Delete section 6.7 — This section is no longer applicable.
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Timetable for implementation: Immediate
> 
> Anything else
> 
> Originally, I thought this would be an editorial change as the HD-Ratio has
> been unused for several years.
> 
> However, further research revealed that it is still referenced in the
> Community Networks policy which has also gone unused since its inception. As
> a result, I am going to attempt to simultaneously simplify the Community
> Networks policy while preserving its intent and eliminate the HD-Ratio from
> the NRPM.
> 
> I realize that fees are out of scope for policy, however, in this case, we
> are not setting fees. We are addressing in policy which fee structure the
> given policy should operate under in a manner which does not constrain board
> action on actual fees.
> 
> This is an attempt to preserve the original intent of the Community networks
> policy in a way that may make it less vestigial.
> 
> Alternatively, we could simply delete Section 6.5.9 if that is preferred.
> The primary goal here is to get rid of vestigial reference to HD-Ratio
> rather than to get wrapped around the axle on community networks.
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