[ARIN-consult] Fwd: [arin-announce] Consultation - Retirement of IPv4 Countdown Plan

[John Curran]

On Mar 21, 2016, at 2:45 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com<mailto:owen at delong.com>> wrote:

My concern with this would be its potential impact on requestors who choose to be placed on the waiting list.

Owen -

   Nominal to zero impact.    At this point, anyone placed on the waiting list is unlikely
   to see any resources issued (ever), given that there are several hundred in front of
   them (and growing - see attached graph)

I would think that requests for IPv4 addresses (other than transfers) should be relatively low volume at this
point and therefore the serialization of them shouldn’t pose that much of a burden.

  One would think that, but we still receiving more than 100 requests per month
  for IPv4 assignments or allocations, and these (per the countdown procedures)
  must be processed by team review to insure maintenance of sequencing.
  Request stats are here: <https://www.arin.net/knowledge/statistics/index.html>

  The requirement for the Registration Services team to gather and do serial processing
  of these requests significantly increases overall staff time per request, and does not
  appear to be particularly constructive use of resources given that (when approved),
  they are all then going to end of a very long waiting list…  We can achieve the same
  result (and faster for everyone) if we eliminate the phase 4 team review processing.

If this is impacting transfer requests, they should long since have been exempted from the phase 4 processing.

  Perhaps I was not clear - it is not the processing of transfers that is causing the
  impact; it is the processing of IPv4 assignment and allocation requests that results
  in a staff impact and consequently impacts processing of transfers.

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN



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