From markk at netsol.com  Tue Mar 19 22:54:06 2002
From: markk at netsol.com (Mark Kosters)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:54:06 -0500
Subject: proposed changes to the micro-allocation policy
Message-ID: <20020320035406.GB1681@netsol.com>

Hi

The current micro-allocation policy is a bit broken and needs some
help. So, I've edited it some and expanded it to include IPv6 allocations.
I'd like to hear your comments on any improvements to this proposed
policy enhancement.

Regards,
Mark


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Mark Kosters             markk at netsol.com       Verisign Applied Research
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ARIN will make micro-allocations to critical infrastructure providers of the 
Internet, including public exchange points, core DNS service providers (e.g.
ICANN-sanctioned root, gTLD, and ccTLD operators) as well as the allocation 
agencies (RIRs and IANA).  These allocations will be no longer than a /24
using ipv4 or a /48 using ipv6. Multiple allocations may be granted in certain
situations.

Note that exchange point allocations should not be announced on the public 
Internet whereas the others may be announced on the Internet.  ARIN will 
provide a list of Micro-allocations to apprise ISPs on what blocks are
allocated to aid in their route filter development.

Exchange point operators must provide justification for the allocation, 
including: connection policy, location, other participants (minimum of two), 
ASN, and contact information. ISPs and other organizations receiving these 
micro-allocations will be charged under the ISP fee schedule, while end users 
will be charged under the fee schedule for end users. This policy does not 
preclude exchange point operators from requesting address space under other 
policies.

From david at iprg.nokia.com  Wed Mar 20 00:32:22 2002
From: david at iprg.nokia.com (David Kessens)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:32:22 -0800
Subject: proposed changes to the micro-allocation policy
In-Reply-To: <20020320035406.GB1681@netsol.com>; from markk@netsol.com on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:54:06PM -0500
References: <20020320035406.GB1681@netsol.com>
Message-ID: <20020319213222.F6103@iprg.nokia.com>


On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:54:06PM -0500, Mark Kosters wrote:
> 
> ... stuff deleted ...
> 
> Note that exchange point allocations should not be announced on the public 
> Internet whereas the others may be announced on the Internet.  ARIN will 
> provide a list of Micro-allocations to apprise ISPs on what blocks are
> allocated to aid in their route filter development.
> 
> Exchange point operators must provide justification for the allocation, 
> including: connection policy, location, other participants (minimum of two), 
> ASN, and contact information. ISPs and other organizations receiving these 
> micro-allocations will be charged under the ISP fee schedule, while end users 
> will be charged under the fee schedule for end users. This policy does not 
> preclude exchange point operators from requesting address space under other 
> policies.

I would prefer that exchange points should not be handled under this
proposed policy. The other RIRs already adopted a policy for exchange
points only. Just like they did, I would like to have single clear
document for an exchange point operator on what it takes to get
addresses and which address block is used for this purpose so that
filtering is possible.

Having routable micro-allocations seems to me a completely different
topic altogether with a completely different set of pros and cons that
should be discussed separately.

David K.
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From jfleming at anet.com  Wed Mar 20 03:07:43 2002
From: jfleming at anet.com (Jim Fleming)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:07:43 -0600
Subject: proposed changes to the micro-allocation policy
References: <20020320035406.GB1681@netsol.com>
Message-ID: <00b401c1cfe6$506e05e0$0f9d5cc6@UNIR>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kosters" <markk at netsol.com>
To: <v6wg at arin.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:54 PM
Subject: proposed changes to the micro-allocation policy


> Hi
> 
> The current micro-allocation policy is a bit broken and needs some
> help. So, I've edited it some and expanded it to include IPv6 allocations.
> I'd like to hear your comments on any improvements to this proposed
> policy enhancement.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark Kosters             markk at netsol.com       Verisign Applied Research
> 
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg15492.html
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> 

There actually is no shortage of IPv4 addresses.

The primary reason of why NAT is so popular is that NICs do not offer
IPv4 addresses promptly, because NICs feared shortage of IPv4 addresses.

The wrong policy on IPv4 address assignment made NAT profittable.
-----

Correct....the I* society has created those flawed policies to pay their
insiders and to give their insiders an unfair advantage. In some cases, the
I* insiders have attempted to shake people down for money, graft, kick-backs,
etc. to obtain the artificially scarce Internet resources that they carefully
control, like diamonds from mines in Africa. Now that we have a more and
more educated Internet population, they are seeing the fraud and corruption
that the I* society Taliban (or Teleban) have spread around the world.
Freedom loving people (as George W. says) need to continue to educate
people, keep working on the new code in Linux and FreeBSD, and keep
helping their clueless government officials understand who has been
responsible for this I* society period of history and how dangerous it is
to allow them to continue to infect the fabrics of our real societies.

Jim Fleming
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt