On 15 February 2024, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) advanced the following 
Draft Policy to Recommended Draft Policy status: 

 

* ARIN-2023-7: Clarification of NRPM Sections 4.5 and 6.11 Multiple Discrete 
Networks

 

The text of the Recommended Draft Policy is below, and may also be found at: 

 

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2023_7/

 

You are encouraged to discuss all Recommended Draft Policies on PPML 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/participate/policy/pdp/

 

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at: 

 

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/

 

Regards,

 

Eddie Diego

Policy Analyst

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

 

 

 

Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2023-7: Clarification of NRPM Sections 4.5 and 
6.11 Multiple Discrete Networks

 

AC Assessment of Conformance with the Principles of Internet Number Resource 
Policy:

 

Based on community feedback and AC discussion, we motion to move ARIN-2023-7: 
Clarification of NRPM Sections 4.5 and 6.11 Multiple Discrete Networks to 
Recommended Draft Policy. This Draft Policy is fair, impartially, and 
technically sound; it will add clarity and readability to the references NRPM 
sections.

 

Problem Statement:

 

Section 4.5 and 6.11 of the NRPM does not adhere to the style guide used by the 
remainder of the document. The numbered lists in these two sections also 
detracts from the readability and usability of the NRPM.

 

Policy Statement:

 

Current:

 

4.5 Multiple Discrete Networks

 

Organizations with multiple discrete networks desiring to request new or 
additional address space under a single Organization ID must meet the following 
criteria:

 

1. The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller 
independent entities.

 

2. The organization must have compelling criteria for creating discrete 
networks. Examples of a discrete network might include:

 

3. Regulatory restrictions for data transmission,

 

4. Geographic distance and diversity between networks,

 

5. Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.

 

6. The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated space to 
each location, including the date of each allocation.

 

7. When applying for additional internet address registrations from ARIN, the 
organization must demonstrate utilization greater than 50% of both the last 
block allocated and the aggregate sum of all blocks allocated from ARIN to that 
organization. If an organization is unable to satisfy this 50% minimum 
utilization criteria, the organization may alternatively qualify for additional 
internet address registrations by having all unallocated blocks of addresses 
smaller than ARIN’s current minimum allocation size.

 

8. The organization may not allocate additional address space to a location 
until each of that location’s address blocks are 80% utilized.

 

9. The organization should notify ARIN at the time of the request their desire 
to apply this policy to their account.

 

10. Upon verification that the organization has shown evidence of deployment of 
the new discrete network site, the new network(s) shall be allocated the 
minimum allocation size under section 4.2.1.5.

 

Proposed:

 

4.5 Multiple Discrete Networks

 

Organizations with multiple discrete networks desiring to request a new or 
additional IP address space allocation under a single Organization ID must meet 
the following criteria:

 

The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller 
independent entities and must have compelling criteria for creating discrete 
networks.

 

Examples which may result in discrete networks might include:

 

                - Regulatory restrictions for data- transmission;

 

                - Geographic distance and diversity between networks; or

 

                - Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.

 

The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated IP 
addresses to each location, including the date of each allocation. When 
applying for additional Internet Resource allocations from ARIN, the 
organization must demonstrate utilization greater than 50% of both the last IP 
addresses allocated and the aggregate sum of all IP addresses allocated from 
ARIN to that organization. If an organization is unable to satisfy this 50% 
minimum utilization criteria, the organization may alternatively qualify for 
additional internet IP address allocations by having all unallocated IP address 
blocks smaller than ARIN’s current minimum allocation size. The organization 
may not allocate additional IP address space to a location until each of that 
location’s IP address allocations are 80% utilized. The organization should 
notify ARIN at the time of the request of their desire to apply this policy to 
their account. Upon verification that the organization has shown evidence of 
deployment of the new discrete network site, the new network(s) shall be 
allocated the minimum allocation size under section 4.2.1.5.

 

Current:

 

6.11. IPv6 Multiple Discrete Networks

 

Organizations with multiple discrete IPv6 networks desiring to request new or 
additional address space under a single Organization ID must meet the following 
criteria:

 

1. The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller 
independent entities.

 

2. The organization must have compelling criteria for creating discrete 
networks. Examples of a discrete network might include:

 

                - Regulatory restrictions for data transmission,

 

                - Geographic distance and diversity between networks,

 

                - Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.

 

3. The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated space to 
each location, including the date of each allocation.

 

4. The organization should notify ARIN at the time of the request their desire 
to apply this policy to their account.

 

5. Requests for additional space:

 

6. Organization must specify on the application which discrete network(s) the 
request applies to

 

7. Each network will be judged against the existing utilization criteria 
specified in 6.5.2 and 6.5.3 as if it were a separate organization, rather than 
collectively as would be done for requests outside of this policy.

 

Proposed:

 

6.11. IPv6 Multiple Discrete Networks

 

Organizations with multiple discrete IPv6 networks desiring to request new or 
additional IPv6 address allocations under a single Organization ID must meet 
the following criteria:

 

The organization shall be a single entity and not a consortium of smaller 
independent entities. The organization must have compelling criteria for 
creating discrete networks.

 

Examples which may result in discrete networks might include:

 

                - Regulatory restrictions for data transmission;

 

                - Geographic distance and diversity between networks; or

 

                - Autonomous multihomed discrete networks.

 

The organization must keep detailed records on how it has allocated IPv6 
addresses to each location, including the date of each IPv6 address allocation. 
The organization should notify ARIN at the time of the request their desire to 
apply this policy to their account.

 

Requests for additional space:

 

                - Organization must specify on the application which discrete 
network(s) the IPv6 address request applies to

 

                - Each network will be judged against the existing utilization 
criteria specified in 6.5.2 and 6.5.3 as if it were a separate organization, 
rather than collectively as would be done for requests outside of this policy.

 

Comments:

 

The working group considered entering 3 separate proposals but decided that the 
parts are all related enough to combine into one proposal. Section 2.18 is the 
proposed section number for Organizational Identifier (org ID) definition due 
to recently adopted ARIN-2022-11 taking section 2.17.

 

Timetable for Implementation: Immediate

 

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