[address-policy-wg] 2006-05 PI Assignment Size

Hello,

I am writing to voice support for proposal 2006-05, which would change
assignment criteria for end-users requesting PI addressing for multihoming.

I have recently found myself in a situation which, I believe, this policy
proposal directly addresses.  I work for an end-user organization which does
business internationally.  Though I myself am based in the US, I am also
responsible for an office in the UK.  This UK office has its own established
network that connects independently to the Internet.

We ordered connectivity from a second provider with the intention of
multihoming with both connections, only to find out that both service
providers *require* us to obtain and use PI space in order to do so.  Neither
provider will deaggregate space from their own assigned PA ranges for us to
announce, which, in my experience, is something that US providers will often
do for their customers.

Our London-based network is rather small, and it does not, by itself,
presently meet the address usage requirements for a /24 assignment, the
longest commonly-accepted prefix size.  However, the services that we provide
over the Internet are business-critical, and they are the reason we intend to
multihome.

Being that this was my first time arranging multihoming with UK service
providers, I wondered if this requirement for PI space to multihome was an
exceptional case in the provider marketplace.  But after a post to the UKNOF
mailing list, it seems that the requirement is quite commonplace.

We are currently pursuing other avenues of obtaining PI addressing, but had
the proposed changes been in effect, we would be operational with both
providers by now.  Due to providers' requirement for PI space to multihome,
the present policy unfairly restricts the end-users who may multihome only to
those that can justify the space.

Regards,

-Brian Knight
Sr. Network Engineer
Mizuho Securities USA, Futures Division
http://www.mizuhosecurities.com/

* Please note that I do not speak for my employer - only for myself.
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