[ARIN-consult] Consultation - Retirement of IPv4 Countdown Plan

[Mike Burns]

Hi John,

Transfer volume has increased significantly as noted.
The processing time involved in transfers is way too long by today's
standards.
Money and documents can fly around the globe, but RIR processing does not
fly. :-(

Anything we can do to reduce the RIR processing time will be helpful.
The retirement of the IPv4 Countdown plan will free ARIN time to expedite
transfers. I support the change.

Regards,
Mike Burns
IPTrading.com

PS  Does ARIN have stats on the time it takes transfers from initial request
to Whois update?



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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 9:05 AM
To: arin-consult at arin.net
Subject: [ARIN-consult] Consultation - Retirement of IPv4 Countdown Plan

In 2011, ARIN published IPv4 countdown procedures to ensure fair and
equitable administrative processing of IPv4 requests leading up to the
IPv4 depletion event. These countdown procedures have been meticulously
followed for the past five years. We have been inside the 4th and final
phase of this plan since April of 2014 when ARIN reached one remaining
/8 equivalent. This final phase of the plan includes the processing of all
IPv4 requests on a "first in, first out" basis (chronologically based on
time stamp) and team review for all IPv4 requests, regardless of size.

You can find the processing procedures for each phase on ARIN's IPv4
Countdown Plan page at the ARIN public website.

https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown_plan.html

ARIN's IPv4 free pool depleted in September of 2015. Even though the
depletion event has already occurred, ARIN staff continues to apply Phase 4
countdown procedures to IPv4 free pool requests today. With the exception of
requests that fall under NRPM 4.4 (micro-allocations) and
4.10 (dedicated IPv4 block to facilitate IPv6 deployment), all IPv4 requests
that qualify for an allocation/assignment are destined for the Waiting List
for Unmet Requests. Since the waiting list started in 2015, over 300
organizations have been added. As the waiting list continues to grow, there
is diminishing likelihood new additions will receive IPv4 blocks resulting
from returns or IANA distributions in the coming years.

https://www.arin.net/resources/request/waiting_list.html

ARIN staff is considering the retirement of the IPv4 Countdown Plan. 
This would involve the cessation of Phase 4 processing procedures in our
future review of IPv4 requests that are destined for the waiting list for
unmet requests. IPv4 request tickets would continue to be responded to in
generally the same number of days across the many different open requests,
but would no longer be processed on a strict "first in, first out" basis. We
would also discontinue the team review requirement for
IPv4 request tickets. Removing these procedures would allow the recovered
staff time to be redirected to other registration related work activities
inside the ARIN Registration Services Department, such as handling the
increasing number of transfers.

We seek your comment on the possible retirement of ARIN's IPv4 Countdown
Plan.

Please provide comments to arin-consult at arin.net.

This consultation period will close at 5:00 PM EDT, 22 April 2016. 
Please contact us at info at arin.net if you have any questions.

Regards,

John Curran
President & CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
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