ARIN is responsible and diligent in evaluating requests. The fact that only a single /16 has been issued to date makes me think that this is a solution in search of a problem.
I think the policy is fine as it is. Owen > On Jun 25, 2024, at 11:32, ARIN <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 20 June 2024, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted “ARIN-prop-335: > Restrict the Largest Initial IPv6 Allocation to /20” as a Draft Policy. > > Draft Policy ARIN-2024-8 is below and can be found at: > > https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2024_8/ > > 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 ARIN-2024-8: Restrict the Largest Initial IPv6 Allocation to /20 > > Problem Statement: > > In order to promote aggregation, the NRPM currently allows initial > allocations up to a /16. However, the entire IPv6 address space only contains > 65536 /16s, and the space allocated to IANA for globally routable purposes > only contains 8192 /16s. Therefore, a /16 is a sufficiently large portion of > the IPv6 address space that the goal of conservation starts to outweigh the > goal of aggregation. > > Policy statement: > > 6.5.2.1b: Replace "In no case shall an ISP receive more than a /16 initial > allocation." with "In no case shall a LIR receive more than a /20 initial > allocation." > > Comments: > > A quick look at ARIN's stats shows that only a single IPv6 allocation exceeds > a /20 in size: > > grep "ipv6" delegated-arin-extended-latest | grep allocated | cut -d '|' -f > 5 | sort | uniq -c > 1 16 > 8 20 > 22 22 > 39 24 > 2 27 > 127 28 > 15 29 > 6 30 > 21 31 > 4236 32 > 1 33 > 2 35 > 1401 36 > 1 37 > 1 38 > 1050 40 > 11 41 > 13 42 > 9 43 > 851 44 > 16 45 > 15 46 > 26 47 > 1754 48 > > Timetable for implementation: Immediate > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ARIN-PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
