[arin-announce] ARIN Announces Implementation of Weekly Waitlist Distribution

[ARIN]

ARIN periodically reviews available IPv4 address space in inventory (for 
example, address blocks that have recently been returned, reclaimed, or 
revoked) to determine if any blocks may be released for issuance to 
ARIN-approved waitlist organizations. Today, ARIN filled all existing 
approved IPv4 waitlist requests and was left with additional IPv4 
address space cleared for issuance. In accordance with Number Resource 
Policy Manual (NRPM) policy 4.1.8 (ARIN Waitlist), which specifies that 
ARIN will only issue future IPv4 assignments/allocations (excluding 4.4 
and 4.10 space) from the ARIN Waitlist, this additional IPv4 address 
space has been set aside to fulfill future requests added to the waitlist.

To ensure equitable distribution, ARIN will begin a weekly distribution 
to the waitlist for as long as this available IPv4 address space lasts. 
The weekly distribution will be completed every Friday (or the following 
Monday if Friday is a holiday). The weekly distribution will consist of 
all requests approved and added to the waitlist by close of business 
(7:00 PM Eastern) each Thursday. Weekly distributions will continue to 
occur as long as there is cleared IPv4 address space available to be 
issued. These requests will be filled in the order they are added as per 
existing waitlist procedures. When no additional cleared IPv4 address 
space is available, ARIN will discontinue the weekly distributions.

ARIN’s next waitlist distribution will occur on Friday, 27 December 2019.

Regards,

John Sweeting
Chief Customer Officer
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)