On 04/01/2023 1:52 p.m., Fernando Frediani wrote:
Interesting this topic. Generally speaking I always found a bit
strange (not only in ARIN) to have this distinction between ISP and
End-user. In practice things should not differ much. Only thing that
would possible remain slightly different are the details of
justifications that must be provided and the size of the block to be
allocated.
Another thing that I wanted to understand better is the reasoning to
allocate a significant smaller IPv6 block to a said end-user
organization given it is not so scarce resource. At least a /40 should
be minimal default for a end-user (not a /48) and a /32 for any size
of ISP. For now my personal impression is to create some artificial
scarcity in order to have different levels of Service Category.
I think it's just a policy residual that is a byproduct of the old
separate fee schedules for end
users and ISPs. Before ARIN moved everyone to the single fee schedule
with the Registration
Service Plans, end users (who paid by the assigned resource instead of
the RSP) had the option
to chose to be converted to the RSP (on a non-revocable basis so there
was no option to switch
back later) and any who did would be "treated as an ISP". I took this
option about a year before
the fee schedules were changed and shortly after requested my IPv6 space
which I was at that
point already eligible for on the basis that anyone who had a /24 or
more of IPv4 space was
automatically eligible for IPv6 space.
Though I waited until ARIN-2020-3 was implemented so I could get a /40
which is still in the
3X-small category. (Moving up from $150/yr to $250/yr was in my budget
$500/yr for the
2X-small was not.) It used to be that "ISPs" (which at that time meant
any organization on
the RSP) could not request anything smaller than a /36 but end users
could request a /48
minimum. (But could of course request more with sufficient
justification.) Now that "ISPs"
can request as small as a /40 it made IPv6 much more of an option for
micro-sized ISPs or
"ISPs".
So it's not even a different service level category as anything between
a /48 and a /40 is still
a 3X-small.
Since end users could previously ask to be "treated as an ISP" I would
be surprised if ARIN
would not allow that now.
We probably should do away with the distinction between end users and
ISPs in policy since
we've done away with the distinction in fee schedules and even before
then end users could
exercise a one time option to be "treated as an ISP". Like the
consolidation of fee schedules
did it would reduce confusion for new members by simplification.
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