[arin-announce] Last Call for Comment: Policy Proposal 2002-5

[Member Services]

The ARIN Advisory Council voted to forward the 
following policy proposal to the ARIN Board of 
Trustees for consideration.

This is a last call for comments on this policy 
proposal prior to the ARIN Board of Trustees review.  
Comments received during this period will be included 
with the proposal when it is presented to the Board 
of Trustees for their consideration.

Please send your comments to ppml at arin.net. This last 
call will expire at 23:59 EST on November 22, 2002. 

Raymond A. Plzak 
President 
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 


*** Last Call: Policy Proposal 2002-5 *** 

2002-5: Amnesty Requests

If an organization, whether a member or non-member, ISP or end-user,
relinquishes a block of portable address space to ARIN, they shall be
allowed to receive a block /24 or shorter, returning exchanged space
within 12 months, and they shall not be required to justify their use of
that space. That is, anyone should be able to decrease their use of
address space at any time without fear of the effects of a utilization
audit. ARIN staff shall, at their discretion, determine whether the
smaller replacement block shall be a subnet of the returned block, or a
block allocated from some different range. In the case of an
organization name change for address resource records, ARIN's normal
transfer policies will apply. If the exchanged address block was
maintained in the ARIN database without maintenance fees, the
replacement space shall be as well, but if the returned block had
associated maintenance fees, then the replacement block shall also be
subject to maintenance fees.


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