[ppml] Revised 2007-17 Legacy outreach and partial reclamation

What follows is a pretty major rewrite of proposal 2007-17 based on
community input, staff input, and feedback from the other members
of the Advisory Council.  I hope that this new version of the proposal
will better meet the desires of the community, the rigors of the
ARIN policy process, and, the needs of the ARIN staff.

If you choose to comment on this new version, please indicate whether
you favor or oppose it as well as any ways in which you believe it
could be improved.

Thanks,

Owen


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Policy Proposal Name: Legacy Outreach and Partial Reclamation
Author
	name: Owen DeLong
	email: owen at delong.com
	telephone: 408-921-6984
	organization: JITTR Networks

Proposal Version: 0.2.0
Submission Date: 2008 February 21
Proposal type: M
	new, modify, or delete.
Policy term: permanent
	temporary, permanent, or renewable.
Policy statement:
	Replace section 4.6 as follows:

	4.6 Amnesty and Aggregation requests
		4.6.1	Intent of this policy
			This policy is intended to allow the community and ARIN staff
			to work together with holders of address resources in the
			best interests of the community by facilitating the return of
			unused address space and the aggregation of existing space
			in a manner which is in the best interests of both parties.

		4.6.2	No penalty for returning or aggregating
			ARIN shall seek to make the return of address space as convenient
			and risk-free to the returning organization as possible. An
			organization with several non-contiguous blocks seeking to
			aggregate and return space at the same time should be accommodated
			if possible. If it is possible to expand one block, for example,
			to facilitate the return of other blocks, ARIN should do that
			where possible.

		4.6.3	Return should not force renumbering
			An organization shall be allowed to return a partial block of
			any size to ARIN. For any return greater than a /24, ARIN shall
			not require that the non-returned portion of the block be renumbered
			unless the returning organization wishes to do so.

		4.6.4	Incentives
			The Board of Trustees should consider creating incentives for
			organizations to return addresses under this policy.

		4.6.5	RSA Required if new addresses received
			Any organization which receives any additional addresses under
			this policy shall be required to sign an ARIN RSA which will
			apply to all new addresses issued and to any retained blocks
			which are expanded under this policy.

		4.6.6	Annual contact required
			Any organization which participates in this policy shall be
			required to sign an agreement stipulating that ARIN will attempt
			contact at least once per year via the contact mechanisms
			registered for the organization in whois. Should ARIN fail
			to make contact, after reasonable effort the organization
			shall be flagged as "unreachable" in whois. After six months
			in "unreachable" status, the organization agrees that ARIN
			may consider all resources held by the organization to be
			abandoned and reclaim such resources. Should the organization
			make contact with ARIN prior to the end of the aforementioned
			six month period and update their contact information
			appropriately, ARIN shall remove the "unreachable" status
			and the annual contact cycle shall continue as normal.

			If the organization pays annual fees to ARIN, the payment
			of annual fees shall be considered sufficient contact.

	
Rationale:

	Existing policy supports aggregation (4.7) and provides some
	amnesty (existing 4.6) for returning blocks.  However, a number
	of resource holders have expressed discomfort with the current
	section 4.6 believing that they will be forced to return their
	entire address space and renumber rather than being able to
	make partial returns and retain some of their existing space.

	This policy seeks to eliminate those concerns and make the return
	of unused address space more desirable to the resource holders.

	A very high percentage of underutilized space is in the hands of
	legacy holders who currently have no benefit to joining the ARIN
	process and no way to return any portion of their address space
	without incurring significant disadvantage as a result.

	A suggestion to the board would be to adopt benefits along the
	following lines for people returning space. These benefits would
	provide additional incentive for resource holders to make appropriate
	returns and for legacy holders to join the ARIN process:


			1.	If the organization does not currently pay ARIN
				fees, they shall remain fee exempt.

			2.	If the organization currently pays ARIN fees,
				their fees shall be waived for two years for
				each /20 returned, with any fractional /20
				resulting in a one-time single year waiver.

			3.	Any organization returning address space under
				this policy shall continue under their existing
				RSA or they may choose to sign the current RSA.
				For organizations which currently do not
				have an RSA, they may sign the current RSA, or,
				they may choose to remain without an RSA.

			4.	All organizations returning space under this
				policy shall, if they meet other eligibility
				requirements and so request, obtain an
				appropriate IPv6 end-user assignment
				or ISP allocation as applicable, with no fees
				for the first 5 years.  Organizations electing
				to receive IPv6 allocation/assignment under
				this provision must sign a current RSA and
				must agree that their IPv4 resources are
				henceforth subject to the RSA.

Timetable for implementation:

	Immediate

Meeting presenter:

	TBD, probably Owen DeLong

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