The following Draft Policy has been revised:

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

Revised text is below and can be found at:

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

You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will evaluate 
the discussion to assess the conformance of this Draft Policy with ARIN's 
Principles of Internet number resource policy as stated in the Policy 
Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these principles are:

* Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
* Technically Sound
* Supported by the Community

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)


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

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:

Replace Section 4.5 in its entirety with the following text: 

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:

        1. The organization must 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 situations which may represent compelling criteria for 
multiple discrete networks 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 
IP addresses to each location, including the date of each allocation. 

        4. 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.

        5. The organization must not allocate additional IP address space to a 
location until each of that location’s IP address allocations are 80% utilized.

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

 
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:

Replace Section 6.11 in its entirety with the following text:

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:

        1. The organization must 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 situations which may represent compelling criteria for 
multiple discrete networks 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 
IPv6 addresses to each location, including the date of each IPv6 address 
allocation. 

        4. When an organization is requesting additional space under this 
policy, the organization must specify on the application which discrete 
network(s) the IPv6 address request applies to. A request for additional space 
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.

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

 
Comments:

The working group considered entering 3 separate proposals but decided that the 
parts are all related enough to combine into one proposal; community feedback 
recommended that a previously-included definition of the Organizational 
Identifier term be moved into a separate policy.

Timetable for implementation: Immediate


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