From info at arin.net Mon Aug 7 16:08:33 2017 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 16:08:33 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] Response to ACSP 2017.14: Provide Statistics About the Size of Available 2-byte and 4-byte ASNs Message-ID: <1b925775-47b3-4010-3701-696d709c3efc@arin.net> Today ARIN issued its response to ACSP 2017.14: Provide Statistics About the Size of Available 2-byte and 4-byte ASNs. The full text of the suggestion is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2017-14.html Response: Thank you for your suggestion, numbered 2017.14 upon confirmed receipt, to provide statistics about the size of ARIN's available 2-byte and 4-byte AS number pools. As guided by previous policy in the Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM), ARIN no longer makes a distinction between 2-byte only and 4-byte only AS numbers, but does recognize identification of the "classic 2-byte range" of AS numbers sometimes referred to by customers during the request process. For the purposes of this ACSP response, AS numbers from the classic 2-byte pool will be referred to as "2-byte" and those from the non-classic, 2-byte pool will be referred to as "4-byte". At the time of writing this ACSP response, ARIN has 303 2-byte AS numbers along with 677 4-byte AS numbers in our active inventory to be issued. Newly approved requests receive the lowest AS number in our active inventory at the time of issuance. If we happen to have a 2-byte AS number in inventory at that time, it will be issued. In cases where there is no 2-byte AS number in active inventory at the time of issuance, the next 4-byte AS number in the inventory is issued. ARIN regularly receives AS numbers back into our inventory either through returns or revocation due to non-payment of registration fees in accordance with the ARIN Registration Services Agreement. When we receive these returns or make these revocations, we hold the subject AS numbers outside of the active inventory for a period of time to help prevent potential disputes for new registrants who might receive these recycled AS numbers. At certain times of the year, ARIN registration staff conducts a review of these held AS numbers for re-introduction into our active inventory. When that happens, recycled AS numbers from the 2-byte range are sometimes included in the batch that gets added to our active inventory. We still occasionally receive a request from a new AS number registrant who received a 4-byte AS number during the request process to have that exchanged for a 2-byte AS number. We accommodate those requests when they are made and conduct a review of our inactive (held) inventory to identify a suitable 2-byte AS number for the customer. Over the last two years, requests to exchange a 2-byte for a 4-byte AS number have decreased in frequency. In the last year, we averaged fewer than two requests of this type per month. At the time of writing this ACSP response, ARIN's AS number inventory consisted of: Active Inventory (ready to be issued) 2-byte: 303 4-byte: 677 Inactive Inventory (held returns or revocations) 2-byte: 1,019 4-byte: 44 Over time, the AS numbers from our inactive inventory will continue to be added to our active inventory. At the same time, however, we will continue to reclaim AS numbers through voluntary customer returns and ARIN revocations due to non-payment of registration fees. Going forward, ARIN staff will provide a bi-annual report on the status of both our active and inactive AS number inventories, including data separation for 2-byte and 4-byte ranges. This information will be featured in the Registration Services Department report presented at the ARIN meetings in April and October of each year and published along with the associated meeting reports on the ARIN website. Thank you for participating in the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process. We are closing your suggestion with the commitment to continue providing this information on a bi-annual basis going forward. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Fri Aug 18 10:38:53 2017 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:38:53 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] *NEW* ACSP 2017.15: Add Hyperlinks Within the NRPM Message-ID: <27c37b97-9ea8-987b-37c2-698b4d643afd@arin.net> On 16 August, we received a new suggestion, 2017.15: Add Hyperlinks Within the NRPM. We are currently reviewing the feasibility of implementing this suggestion and will be reporting back to the community soon. View the suggestion at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2017-15.html Full Text provided: Description: References to other sections in the text of the NRPM should be represented an embedded hyper link to that section in the online HTML version of the NRPM, similar to the hyper links in the online HTML version of the NRPM's table of contents. For example, section 6.11 contains references to sections 6.5.2 and 6.5.3, these references should be hyper linked to the section headers for those sections. Value to Community: This should make it easier to follow of these references to other sections in the online HTML version of the NRPM. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Aug 31 09:58:14 2017 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:58:14 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] Response to ACSP 2017.15: Add Hyperlinks Within the NRPM Message-ID: <522c8965-4f76-890a-0ace-889006523b61@arin.net> On 29 August, ARIN issued its response to ACSP 2017.15: Add Hyperlinks Within the NRPM. https://arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2017-15.html *** Thank you for your suggestion, numbered 2017.15 upon confirmed receipt, to implement inter-sectional hyperlinks within the HTML representation of ARIN's Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) on the ARIN website. Having reviewed your suggestion and the text of the NRPM itself, we find that there are 30 instances of section references within the current version of the NRPM that would benefit from the aforementioned hyperlinks. These instances occur in the following sections: Section 4.1.6 Section 4.1.8 Section 4.1.8.1 Section 4.2.3.7.1 Section 4.2.3.8 Section 4.3.4 Section 4.4 Section 4.5 Section 6.5.2.1 Section 6.5.3 Section 6.5.4 Section 6.5.5.1 Section 6.5.8.3 Section 6.5.9.1 Section 6.5.9.2 Section 6.11 Section 8.3 Section 8.4 Section 8.5.7 The implementation of these hyperlinks can be completed by ARIN staff and requires no content changes to the NRPM text itself. We estimate that the suggested changes will be completed by Q4 2017, assuming the interpretation of your request as being applicable solely to the current NRPM version, and not to all previous versions archived on https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm_changelog.html. As such, we will proceed with prioritizing this work within our Communications and Member Services Department and will update this suggestion once completed. Thank you for participating in the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process. Your suggestion will remain open until implemented. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)