Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2013-8: Subsequent Allocations for New Multiple Discrete Networks

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Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2013-8
Subsequent Allocations for New Multiple Discrete Networks

On 15 May 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) recommended
ARIN-2013-8 for adoption, making it a Recommended Draft Policy.

ARIN-2013-8 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2013-8.html

You are encouraged to discuss Draft Policy 2013-8 on the PPML prior to
the upcoming ARIN Public Policy Consultation at NANOG 61. Both the 
discussion on the list and at the meeting will be used by the ARIN 
Advisory Council to determine the community consensus for adopting this 
as policy.

The ARIN Policy Development Process can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html

Regards,

Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2013-8
Subsequent Allocations for New Multiple Discrete Networks

Date: 16 May 2014

AC's assessment of conformance with the Principles of Internet Number 
Resource Policy:

This proposal enables fair and impartial number resource administration 
by documenting how to get a new block for a new discrete network. 
Previous versions of the policy did have this information and over time 
it has been removed.

This proposal is technically sound.  There is a need for discrete 
networks and an organization should have a policy that would allow it to 
create a new discrete network.

This proposal is supported by the community.  There has been some 
concern about the criterial that will be used and this version has been 
updated with the current thinking on the criteria.

Policy Statement:

IPv4:
Add the following statement to section 4.5.4.
Upon verification that the organization has shown evidence of deployment 
of the new discrete network site, the new network(s) shall be allocated 
the minimum allocation size under section 4.2.1.5 unless the 
organization can demonstrate additional need using the immediate need 
criteria (4.2.1.6).

IPv6:
Add an additional reference to section 6.11.5.b such that it references 
both the initial allocation and subsequent allocation sections of the 
IPv6 LIR policy.
"Each network will be judged against the existing utilization criteria 
specified in 6.5.2 and 6.5.3 as if it were a separate organization..."

Comments:
a. Timetable for implementation: immediate
b. This policy is being proposed based upon the Policy Implementation & 
Experience Report from ARIN 32.
https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_32/PDF/thursday/nobile-policy.pdf
c: Older versions of the MDN policy did contain new network criteria. 
This criteria appears to have been dropped during subsequent rewrites of 
the MDN policy. "The organization must not allocate a CIDR block larger 
than the current minimum assignment size of the RIR (currently /20 for 
ARIN) to a new network." 
(https://www.arin.net/policy/archive/nrpm_20041015.pdf)