[162671] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Apr 29 19:56:45 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <8DA1853CE466B041B104C1CAEE00B3748FC5881F@CHAXCH01.corp.arin.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:52:01 -0700
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Other AC members and I are in the process of crafting a proposal to =
address this issue.
Please stay tuned. I hope to have something ready to post to PPML in the =
next few weeks.
Owen
On Apr 29, 2013, at 12:19 PM, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Lee Howard <lee@asgard.org> wrote:
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>> On 4/29/13 1:03 AM, "J=E9r=F4me Nicolle" <jerome@ceriz.fr> wrote:
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>>> It is necessary to keep an acceptable churn and still allocate small
>>> blocks to newcomers, merely to deploy CGNs.
>>>=20
>>> Not doing so would end up in courts for entry barrier enforced by a
>>> monopoly (the RIRs).
>>=20
>> There is a /10 reserved to facilitate IPv6 deployment:
>> https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four10
>> "Reclamation" is facilitated by offering a financial benefit, i.e.,
>> selling underused addresses.
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> Note that under the "slow start" IPv4 address allocation policies,=20
> small ISPs do not qualify for an initial allocation from ARIN until=20
> they have utilized a provider-assigned block of the minimum size
> specified (based on being singly-homed or multi-homed.) These same=20
> criteria now apply to receipt of an address block via transfer, so at=20=
> regional IPv4 free pool depletion may be _very_ difficult to satisfy.=20=
>=20
> There are a number of ways of addressing this (changing initial ISP=20
> allocation policy, changing dependence on allocation policies for=20
> transfer approvals, establishing a reserved block for new entrants,
> etc.) but if left unaddressed will leave circumstances such that new=20=
> entrants are precluded from participating in the transfer market as=20
> a recipient. This is the type of outcome that is generally frowned
> upon by governments for obvious reasons, and should be very carefully
> considered by the community.
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> FYI,
> /John
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> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
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