Policy Proposal: PIv6 for legacy holders with RSA and efficient use

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The shepherds from the ARIN Advisory Council for this proposal are 
Suzanne Woolf and Ron da Silva.

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> 
> Policy Proposal Name: PIv6 for legacy holders with RSA and efficient use
> 
> Author: Scott Leibrand
> 
> Proposal Version:   1.0
> 
> Submission Date:   7/28/2007
> 
> Proposal type:   new
> 
> Policy term:   permanent
> 
> Policy statement:
> 
> Modify NRPM section 6.5.8.1 (Direct assignments from ARIN to end-user
> organizations: Criteria), to read:
> 
> To qualify for a direct assignment, an organization must:
> 
>     1. not be an IPv6 LIR; and
>     2. qualify for an IPv4 assignment or allocation from ARIN under the
>        IPv4 policy currently in effect, or demonstrate efficient
>        utilization of a direct IPv4 assignment or allocation covered by a
>        current ARIN RSA.
> 
> Rationale:
> 
> Current policy allows direct IPv6 allocations and assignments to nearly
> all organizations with IPv4 allocations or assignments from ARIN.  As a
> result, such organizations can get IPv6 space just as easily as they can
> get IPv4 space, making it easy for them to transition to IPv6 as soon as
> they're ready to do so.  However, there are some organizations who
> received IPv4 /23's and /24's prior to the formation of ARIN, and use
> that space in a multihomed, provider-independent fashion.  Under current
> policy, such organizations cannot get IPv6 PI space without artificially
> inflating host counts, and are therefore discouraged from adopting IPv6.
>   This policy proposal aims to remove this disincentive, and allow such
> organizations to easily adopt IPv6.
> 
> In addition, pre-ARIN assignments were issued through an informal
> process, and many legacy resource holders have not yet entered into a
> formal agreement with ARIN, the manager of many such IP numbering
> resources.  This policy proposal would require that such assignments be
> brought under a current ARIN Registration Services Agreement, thereby
> formalizing the relationship.
> 
> Some pre-ARIN assignments may not be used efficiently.  As unallocated
> IPv4 numbering resources are approaching exhaustion, it is important to
> ensure efficient utilization of IPv4 assignments, and to arrange for
> reclamation of unused space.  Therefore, this policy would require that
> the organization wishing to receive IPv6 PI space demonstrate efficient
> utilization of their IPv4 assignment.  (Efficient utilization is already
> defined elsewhere in policy, and the exact mechanism for achieving and
> determining efficient use is a matter of procedure, not of policy, so
> detailed procedures are not included in the policy statement above.  The
> intent is that any organization with an assignment of /23 or larger
> which is less than 50% utilized would renumber and return whole unused
> CIDR blocks as necessary to bring the remaining CIDR block to 50%
> utilization or higher.  A /24 should be considered efficiently utilized
> as long as it is in use for multihoming, as /25's and smaller are not
> routable for that purpose.)
> 
> It has been suggested that this policy would be useful only until the
> growth of  IPv6 exceeds the growth of IPv4.  I would agree with this,
> and would further posit that the existing "qualify ... under the IPv4
> policy currently in effect" language should also be modified at that
> time.  I have therefore proposed this policy with a policy term of
> "permanent", with the expectation that this section of policy (6.5.8.1)
> will be rewritten at the appropriate time to entirely remove all IPv4
> dependencies.
> 
> Timetable for implementation:   immediate
> 
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