Policy Proposal 2007-25: IPv6 Policy Housekeeping

[Member Services]

On 30 August 2007, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) concluded their
initial review of "IPv6 Policy Housekeeping" and accepted it as a formal 
policy proposal for discussion by the community.

The proposal is designated Policy Proposal 2007-25: IPv6 Policy
Housekeeping. The proposal text is below and can be found at:
http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2007_25.html

All persons in the community are encouraged to discuss Policy Proposal
2007-25 prior to it being presented at the ARIN Public Policy Meeting in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 17-18 October 2007. Both the discussion on the
Public Policy Mailing List and at the Public Policy Meeting will be used
to determine the community consensus regarding this policy proposal.

The ARIN Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process can be found at:
http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html

ARIN's Policy Proposal Archive can be found at:
http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/proposal_archive.html

Regards,

Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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Policy Proposal 2007-25
IPv6 Policy Housekeeping

Author: Leo Bicknell

Proposal type: modify

Policy term: permanent

Policy statement:

Change I:

In section 6.5.1.1.d, replace the existing statement with the new statement:

"be an existing, known ISP in the ARIN region or have a plan for making
at least 200 end-site assignments to other organizations within 5 years."

Change J:

Remove section 6.5.3 entirely. Update all subsequent sections to have
new section numbers (6.5.[n-1]).

Replace part of the text as (new) section 6.5.4.4:

"All /56 and larger assignments to end sites are required to be
registered either by the LIR or its subordinate ISPs in such a way that
the RIR/NIR can properly evaluate the HD-Ratio when a subsequent
allocation becomes necessary."

Change K:

Section 6.5.8.2, add the following sentence to the end of the first
paragraph:

"An HD-Ratio of .94 must be met for all assignments larger than a /48."

Add to the end of the second paragraph:

"This reservation may be assigned to other organizations later, at
ARIN's discretion."

Change L:

Section 6.5.8.3, add a sentence between the two existing sentences:

"Justification will be determined based on the .94 HD-Ratio metric."


Rationale:

When the IPv6 policy was passed, it was considered to be an "interim"
policy, and it was intended to be similar in all 5 RIR's. Since that
time it has become clear the policy is no longer interim (and proposal
2007-4 was passed to change just that) and it has also been modified
separately in the different RIR's.

It was brought to the ARIN AC's attention that there were a number of
problems with "Section 6" of the NRPM as a result of this legacy:

* The policy contained a large number of items that were not policy. *
The policy contained a few items that were self contradictory. * The
added text was redundant in some cases with existing text. * The policy
was overly vague in a few areas, leaving ARIN staff to have to make
interpretations of what the policy intended. * Policy changes made since
the initial IPv6 policy was adopted have not always updated all of the
relevant sections due to the complexity of section 6.

The intent of these changes is not to change any existing policy, but
rather to remove all non-policy items, and update any ambiguous items
with the way that ARIN staff is currently interprets the policy.

Change I:

Proposal 2005-8 amended section 6.5.4.1 to allow /56 and /64
allocations, but section 6.5.1.1.d was never updated to match the
change. It is believed the intent of the policy, and ARIN staff's
current interpretation of the policy match the updated text.

Change J:

The first part is not policy, and incorrectly states there is no policy
as section 6.5.4 has the policy in it. Take the one useful part and make
it part of the 6.5.4 criteria.

Change K:

No metric is currently listed to justify a larger initial assignment. It
is believed ARIN staff is currently applying the HD-Ratio similar to the
ISP policy, this puts that in writing.

Make it clear that the reservation may not exist in perpetuity.

Change L:

No metric is given to justify additional assignments. It is believed
that ARIN staff is currently applying the HD_Ratio similar to the ISP
policy, this puts that in writing.

Timetable for implementation: Immediate