[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2023-7: Clarification of NRPM Sections 4.5 and 6.11 Multiple Discrete Networks

[ARIN]

On 17 April 2024 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) reverted Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2023-7: Clarification of NRPM Sections 4.5 and 6.11 Multiple Discrete Networks to Draft Policy status. 

The AC issued the following statement:  “The AC, recognizing the community’s desire for more substantial revisions to the text of ARIN-2023-7 than permitted for a proposal in Recommended Draft Policy status, reverted this to Draft Policy in order to consider further revisions to the policy.”

Draft Policy ARIN-2023-7 is below and can be found at:

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2023_7

You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will evaluate the discussion to assess the conformance of this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet number resource policy as stated in the Policy Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these principles are:

* Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
* Technically Sound
* Supported by the Community

The PDP can be found at:

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at: https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/


Regards,

Eddie Diego
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)




Draft Policy ARIN-2023-7: Clarification of NRPM Sections 4.5 and 6.11 Multiple Discrete Networks

Problem Statement:
 
Section 4.5 and 6.11 of the NRPM does not adhere to the style guide used by the remainder of the document. The numbered lists in these two sections also detracts from the readability and usability of the NRPM.
 
Policy Statement:
 
Current:
 
4.5 Multiple Discrete Networks
 
Organizations with multiple discrete networks desiring to request new or additional address space under a single Organization ID must meet the following criteria:
 
1. The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller independent entities.
 
2. The organization must have compelling criteria for creating discrete networks. Examples of a discrete network might include:
 
3. Regulatory restrictions for data transmission,
 
4. Geographic distance and diversity between networks,
 
5. Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.
 
6. The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated space to each location, including the date of each allocation.
 
7. When applying for additional internet address registrations from ARIN, the organization must demonstrate utilization greater than 50% of both the last block allocated and the aggregate sum of all blocks allocated from ARIN to that organization. If an organization is unable to satisfy this 50% minimum utilization criteria, the organization may alternatively qualify for additional internet address registrations by having all unallocated blocks of addresses smaller than ARIN’s current minimum allocation size.
 
8. The organization may not allocate additional address space to a location until each of that location’s address blocks are 80% utilized.
 
9. The organization should notify ARIN at the time of the request their desire to apply this policy to their account.
 
10. Upon verification that the organization has shown evidence of deployment of the new discrete network site, the new network(s) shall be allocated the minimum allocation size under section 4.2.1.5.
 
Proposed:
 
4.5 Multiple Discrete Networks
 
Organizations with multiple discrete networks desiring to request a new or additional IP address space allocation under a single Organization ID must meet the following criteria:
 
The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller independent entities and must have compelling criteria for creating discrete networks.
 
Examples which may result in discrete networks might include:
 
                - Regulatory restrictions for data- transmission;
 
                - Geographic distance and diversity between networks; or
 
                - Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.
 
The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated IP addresses to each location, including the date of each allocation. When applying for additional Internet Resource allocations from ARIN, the organization must demonstrate utilization greater than 50% of both the last IP addresses allocated and the aggregate sum of all IP addresses allocated from ARIN to that organization. If an organization is unable to satisfy this 50% minimum utilization criteria, the organization may alternatively qualify for additional internet IP address allocations by having all unallocated IP address blocks smaller than ARIN’s current minimum allocation size. The organization may not allocate additional IP address space to a location until each of that location’s IP address allocations are 80% utilized. The organization should notify ARIN at the time of the request of their desire to apply this policy to their account. Upon verification that the organization has shown evidence of deployment of the new discrete network site, the new network(s) shall be allocated the minimum allocation size under section 4.2.1.5.
 
Current:
 
6.11. IPv6 Multiple Discrete Networks
 
Organizations with multiple discrete IPv6 networks desiring to request new or additional address space under a single Organization ID must meet the following criteria:
 
1. The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller independent entities.
 
2. The organization must have compelling criteria for creating discrete networks. Examples of a discrete network might include:
 
                - Regulatory restrictions for data transmission,
 
                - Geographic distance and diversity between networks,
 
                - Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.
 
3. The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated space to each location, including the date of each allocation.
 
4. The organization should notify ARIN at the time of the request their desire to apply this policy to their account.
 
5. Requests for additional space:
 
6. Organization must specify on the application which discrete network(s) the request applies to
 
7. Each network will be judged against the existing utilization criteria specified in 6.5.2 and 6.5.3 as if it were a separate organization, rather than collectively as would be done for requests outside of this policy.
 
Proposed:
 
6.11. IPv6 Multiple Discrete Networks
 
Organizations with multiple discrete IPv6 networks desiring to request new or additional IPv6 address allocations under a single Organization ID must meet the following criteria:
 
The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller independent entities. The organization must have compelling criteria for creating discrete networks.
 
Examples which may result in discrete networks might include:
 
                - Regulatory restrictions for data transmission;
 
                - Geographic distance and diversity between networks; or
 
                - Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.
 
The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated IPv6 addresses to each location, including the date of each IPv6 address allocation. The organization should notify ARIN at the time of the request their desire to apply this policy to their account.
 
Requests for additional space:
 
                - Organization must specify on the application which discrete network(s) the IPv6 address request applies to
 
                - Each network will be judged against the existing utilization criteria specified in 6.5.2 and 6.5.3 as if it were a separate organization, rather than collectively as would be done for requests outside of this policy.
 
Comments:
 
The working group considered entering 3 separate proposals but decided that the parts are all related enough to combine into one proposal. Section 2.18 is the proposed section number for Organizational Identifier (org ID) definition due to recently adopted ARIN-2022-11 taking section 2.17.
 
Timetable for Implementation: Immediate