[arin-ppml] ARIN-2024-5 Rewrite of NRPM Section 4.4 Micro-Allocation - Community Questions

[William Herrin]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM Tyler O'Meara via ARIN-PPML
<arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:
>> Under 4.4:
>> “ARIN will reserve a /15 equivalent of IPv4 address space for Critical Internet Infrastructure (CII) within the ARIN RIR service area. Allocations from this pool will be no smaller than a /24.”
>>
>> and later under 4.4.2:, Root and ccTLD Allocations:
>> “Root and ccTLD operators will provide justification of their need and certification of their status as currently active zone operators.”
>>
>> - The proposal text (and, to be fair, the text it aims to replace) is silent on justification criteria for IX allocations larger than a /24. Our understanding is that absent explicit guidance, ARIN staff has used the justification language in Section 4.2.2 or 4.2.4 to evaluate these depending on the request type. Should the qualification criteria be made explicit in the proposed policy text? Should an alternate justification criteria be proposed for larger IX allocations under this section?
>
> Rather than adding requirements to 4.4.1 or 4.4.2 I would add the following (or similar) under 4.4: "Requests under this Section must be justified under either Section 4.2 or 4.3 in addition to meeting the specific requirements below". This makes it clear that 4.4 does not exempt a request from needing to meet the usual ARIN policies, but that it is instead of "add on" you can use to get access to the reserved pool rather than having to go to the waitlist.

Hi Tyler,

This would have the effect of changing the draft's IXP initial
requirements from "must have 3 participants not under common control"
to something along the lines of "must have 128ish participants within
24 months." (NRPM 4.3.3) It could similarly obligate the DNS operators
to employ 128 servers within the /24.

That seems a little challenging to me. What are your thoughts?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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