<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Is this policy codifying that a /56 is the minimum acceptable assignment to an end-user and that if I assign less, I'm not allowed to come back to the IPv6 tough until I've filled up my space with whatever smaller than /56 allocations I decide to make? Not saying right or wrong, just seeking clarification. <br><br>Maybe it's more appropriate under a different group than policy, but I'm new here, so this is the best spot I've seen so far (other than maybe ARIN-2015-1). Anything about X-Small ISPs and initial IPv6 allocations for them in the works? I know of many ISPs (personally, I know of dozens, though I'm sure several hundred of them exist in NA) that are X-small under IPv4 and don't have any IPv6 due to the added expense of moving up to small. yeah, it's not a large sum of money, but with increasing regulatory and network burdens, "bonus" areas like IPv6 are cast aside. Smaller blocks, smaller fees, I dunno, I'll let someone else figure out what's best there. Just trying to find ways of getting the little guys represented and brought into IPv6.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">-----</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">Mike Hammett</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">Intelligent Computing Solutions</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">http://www.ics-il.com</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;"></a><a href="https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/ICSIL" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png" style="border: 0pt none;"></a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">Midwest Internet Exchange</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">http://www.midwest-ix.com</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png" style="border: 0pt none;"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/mdwestix" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png" style="border: 0pt none;"></a><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"ARIN" <info@arin.net><br><b>To: </b>arin-ppml@arin.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:54:13 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10: Minimum IPv6 Assignments<br><br>Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10<br>Minimum IPv6 Assignments<br><br>On 17 September 2015 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted <br>"ARIN-prop-224 Minimum IPv6 Assignments" as a Draft Policy.<br><br>Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10 is below and can be found at:<br>https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_10.html<br><br>You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft<br>Policy 2015-10 on the Public Policy Mailing List.<br><br>The AC will evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance<br>of this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource<br>Policy as stated in the PDP. Specifically, these principles are:<br><br> * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration<br> * Technically Sound<br> * Supported by the Community<br><br>The ARIN Policy Development Process (PDP) can be found at:<br>https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html<br><br>Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:<br>https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Communications and Member Services<br>American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)<br><br><br>## * ##<br><br><br>Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10<br>Minimum IPv6 Assignments<br><br>Date: 23 September 2015<br><br>Problem Statement:<br><br>ISPs may believe that they have an incentive to obtain smaller blocks <br>than they really need, and once they receive their allocation may <br>subsequently issue blocks smaller than their customers may need in the <br>future. This policy seeks to encourage the correct behavior by <br>reiterating the smallest reasonable sub-allocation size and by <br>discounting any space which has been subdivided more finely from any <br>future utilization analysis.<br><br>Policy statement:<br><br>Modify section 2.15 from "When applied to IPv6 policies, the term <br>"provider assignment unit" shall mean the prefix of the smallest block a <br>given ISP assigns to end sites (recommended /48)." to "When applied to <br>IPv6 policies, the term "provider assignment unit" shall mean the prefix <br>of the smallest block a given ISP assigns to end sites. A /48 is <br>recommended as this smallest block size. In no case shall a provider <br>assignment unit for the purpose of this policy be smaller than /56."<br><br>Modify section 2.16.1 from "A provider assignment unit shall be <br>considered fully utilized when it is assigned to an end-site" to "A <br>provider assignment unit shall be considered fully utilized when it is <br>assigned in full (or as part of a larger aggregate) to a single <br>end-site. If a provider assignment unit (which shall be no smaller than <br>/56) is split and assigned to multiple end-sites that entire provider <br>assignment unit shall be considered NOT utilized."<br><br>Comments:<br>Timetable for implementation: IMMEDIATE<br>_______________________________________________<br>PPML<br>You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to<br>the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net).<br>Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at:<br>http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml<br>Please contact info@arin.net if you experience any issues.<br></div><br></div></body></html>