On 20 September 2018, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) advanced the
following Draft Policy to Recommended Draft Policy status:
ARIN-2018-4: Clarification on Temporary Sub-Assignments
The text of the Recommended Draft Policy is below, and may also be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2018_4.html
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prior to their presentation at the next ARIN Public Policy Consultation
(PPC). PPML and PPC discussions are invaluable to the AC when
determining community consensus.
The PDP 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,
Sean Hopkins
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2018-4: Clarification on Temporary
Sub-Assignments
AC Assessment of Conformance with the Principles of Internet Number
Resource Policy:
This recommended draft policy is technically sound, and contributes to
fair and impartial number resources administration by clarifying use
cases that are acceptable for the utilization of a direct assignment.
There is significant community support for the recommended draft policy
as written.
Problem Statement:
When the policy was drafted, the concept of assignments/sub-assignments
did not consider the use of IP addresses in hotspots, or the use of IP
addresses by guests or employees in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and
many other similar cases.
Additionally, the IETF has recently approved the use of a unique IPv6
/64 prefix per interface/host (RFC8273) instead of a unique address.
This, for example, allows users to connect to a hotspot, receive a /64
such that they are "isolated" from other users (for reasons of security,
regulatory requirements, etc.) and they can also use multiple virtual
machines on their devices with a unique address for each one (within the
same /64). Section 2.5 (Definitions/Allocate and Assign), explicitly
prohibits such assignments, stating that assignments and reassignments
are intended “for the exclusive use of the recipient organization”.
This proposal clarifies this situation in this regard by means of
additional clarifying language in the Definitions section.
Policy Statement
Actual Text:
2.5. Allocation, Assignment, Reallocation, Reassignment
Allocation - Address space delegated to an organization directly by ARIN
for the purpose of subsequent distribution by the recipient organization
to other parties.
Assignment - Address space delegated to an organization directly by ARIN
for the exclusive use of the recipient organization.
Reallocation - Address space sub-delegated to an organization by an
upstream provider for the purpose of subsequent distribution by the
recipient organization to other parties.
Reassignment - Address space sub-delegated to an organization by an
upstream provider for the exclusive use of the recipient organization.
New Text (Additional language in bold):
2.5. Allocation, Assignment, Reallocation, Reassignment
Allocation - Address space delegated to an organization directly by ARIN
for the purpose of subsequent distribution by the recipient organization
to other parties.
Assignment - Address space delegated to an organization directly by ARIN
for the exclusive use of the recipient organization.
Reallocation - Address space sub-delegated to an organization by an
upstream provider for the purpose of subsequent distribution by the
recipient organization to other parties.
Reassignment - Address space sub-delegated to an organization by an
upstream provider for the exclusive use of the recipient organization.
Note that the incidental or temporary use of address space by third
parties shall not be considered a reassignment or a violation of the
exclusive use criterion.
Comments
Timetable for implementation: Immediate
Anything else:
Situation in other regions:
This situation, has already been corrected in RIPE, and the policy was
updated in a similar way, even if right now there is a small discrepancy
between the policy text that reached consensus and the RIPE NCC Impact
Analysis. A new policy proposal has been submitted to amend that, and
the text is the same as presented by this proposal at ARIN. Same text
has also been submitted to AfriNIC, LACNIC and APNIC.
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