ARIN IPv6 Policy Proposed

[Antonio Querubin]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:07:23 -0800
> From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
> To: Antonio Querubin <tony at lava.net>
> Cc: Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com>, v6wg at arin.net
> Subject: Re: ARIN IPv6 Policy Proposed
>
> > Consider ARIN's existing IPv4 allocation guidelines.  In order for an ISP
> > to obtain additional address space ARIN expects the upstream to enforce
> > guidelines similar to its own.  Eg. you need to demonstrate 80%
> > utilization of existing space before you can acquire more.  What applies
> > to the ISP applies to the end user.
>
> are you suggesting that an end user which is assigned a /48 for use in site
> A can not get space for site B until they have utilized 80% of site A's
> allocation?  as folk are likely to be filtering on the /48 or shorter, there
> are subtle but familiar issues here.

No, I'm saying those are ARIN's guidelines for IPv4 assignments and that
ISPs are expected to enforce similar guidelines on their downstream IPv4
customers.

ARIN will be adopting IPv6 guidelines as well.  But will ARIN also expect
ISPs to enforce similar guidelines to their downstreams?  If so, then my
point is that ISPs are STILL in the business of making judgement calls on
what the downstream customer gets.  Ie. what determines who is a big
versus small organization and how much IPv6 address space does one get
versus the other?