Policy Proposal 101: Multihomed initial allocation criteria

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Policy Proposal 101: Multihomed initial allocation criteria

Proposal Originator: Chris Grundemann

Proposal Version: 1

Date: 30 October 2009

Proposal type: modify

Policy term: permanent

Policy statement:

Modify item number 4 under section 6.5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria
to the following:

4. 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 or, if multihomed, demonstrate the efficient utilization of a
minimum contiguous or noncontiguous /44 (sixteen /48s) from an
upstream.

Rationale:

The bar for obtaining initial IPv4 allocations is lower for those ISPs
which are multi-homed, it stands to reason that it also be lower in
IPv6.  Since efficient utilization is based on the use of /48s, this
policy would effectively allow any ISP with 15 active customers (with
one /48 each and one /48 for the ISPs own network) to receive an initial
allocation of an IPv6 /32 from ARIN. I think this is a better approach
than removing or lowering the end-site assignment requirement for _all_
ISPs while still providing more open access to IPv6.

Timetable for implementation: immediate