> On Oct 1, 2019, at 15:13 , David Farmer <far...@umn.edu> wrote: > > Because of an off-list conversation I'd like to add I think the expectations > of RFC2008 still exist in our policy manual today; > > 4.2.1.1. Purpose > > ARIN allocates blocks of IP addresses to ISPs for the purpose of reassigning > and reallocating that space to their customers. > > 4.2.3.3. Contiguous Blocks > > IP addresses are allocated to ISPs in contiguous blocks, which should remain > intact. Fragmentation of blocks is discouraged. To avoid fragmentation, ISPs > are encouraged to require their customers to return address space if they > change ISPs. Therefore, if a customer moves to another service provider or > otherwise terminates a contract with an ISP, it is recommended that the > customer return the network addresses to the ISP and renumber into the new > provider’s address space. The original ISP should allow sufficient time for > the renumbering process to be completed before requiring the address space to > be returned. > > Now ARIN's ability to enforce this is very limited, since ISPs can make > reassignments entirely by their own policy without any ARIN review against > NRPM today, we even eliminated ARIN review of large reassignments. So, I'm > not sure a policy change is actually required, as there is noting ARIN can do > about address leases absent connectivity when they are made as reassignments.
Well, there is still section 12. > However, I think clarifying that leases without connectivity are valid and > are documented with reassignments and reallocations might return some peace > and quiet to PPML That would require consensus by the community for something like this proposal. > Also maybe everything after the second sentence of 4.2.3.3 should be deleted > as impractical in a post-free-pool world. That is "To avoid fragmentation…" An issue for a future proposal, if so. Owen
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