The following is a new policy proposal that has been posted to the ARIN
Public Policy Mailing List for discussion on that list.
Regards,
Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
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Subject: Re: IPv4 Fragment Managemnt policy proposal
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:45:47 -0400
From: Member Services <[email protected]>
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ARIN received the following policy proposal.
This proposal is in the first stage of the Policy Development Process.
ARIN staff will perform the Clarity and Understanding step. Staff does
not evaluate the proposal at this time, their goal is to make sure that
they understand the proposal and believe the community will as well.
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Regards,
Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
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Owen DeLong wrote:
At ARIN XXV, one of the discussions pointed out that under current
ARIN policy, after IANA runout, a justified request for a /10 could
(and would) be satisfied, if necessary, by issuing 1024 disjoint /20s.
I believe there is a need for policy to prevent this kind of
gathering of the last breadcrumbs by a small number of large
entities. As such, I offer the following proposal for the discussion
of the community.
Owen
TEMPLATE: ARIN-POLICY-PROPOSAL-TEMPLATE-2.0
1. Policy Proposal Name: IPv4 Fragment Management
2. Proposal Originator
a. name: Owen DeLong
b. email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
c. telephone: 408-890-7992
d. organization: Hurricane Electric
3. Proposal Version: 0.8
4. Date: 2010-04-28
5. Proposal type: New
new, modify, or delete.
6. Policy term: Permanent
temporary, permanent, or renewable.
7. Policy statement:
Add the following to the NRPM as new sections 4.2.1.7 et. seq.
Each time ARIN approves an IPv4 request which it cannot
satisfy from 4 or fewer bit-aligned blocks of free address
space, ARIN shall notify the requestor that there is
insufficient free address space to meet their request and
shall offer the requestor their choice of the following
alternatives:
a. They can have the largest 4 available bit-aligned
blocks of free addresses.
b. This section reserved -- (in case we implement the
waiting list for unmet requests policy)
c. They can seek resources through the directed
transfer policy in section 8.3 of the NRPM.
8. Rationale:
When the ARIN free pool begins to diminish, the free space
will become fragmented into smaller and smaller remaining
contiguous spaces. This policy attempts to ensure that a
large number of remaining disjoint small blocks are not
consumed by a single large request.
While this policy could be regarded as unfair to larger
entities, it is consistent with the safeguards adopted in
section 8.3 which require an exact match or full fill
style of resource transfer. As such, I believe the policy
is fair and in line with the consensus will of the community.
9. Timetable for implementation: Immediate, although it has no
actual effect until some time after IANA runout.
END OF TEMPLATE
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