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

[william at elan.net]

If we really want to see organizations relinquish space to below /20 
boandary (this creating new micro-assignments) then we must have new fee 
schedule that takes care of micro-assignments properly. This issue of 
changing fee schedule with more layers for smaller blocks has been hanging 
around ARIN for a while. It been mentioned in Las Vegas and Eugene and 
financial comitee did promise to work on it since ARIN has quite good 
positive revenue but nothing has come to that so far... But it would 
really be usefull if we want 2002-5 and 2002-6 to actually be used for 
blocks < /20.

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Member Services wrote:

> 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 EDT on April 30, 2003. 
> 
> Member Services 
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
> 
> 
> *** Last Call: Policy Proposal 2002-5 *** 
> 
> Policy Proposal 2002-5: Amnesty Requests 
> 
> If an organization, whether a member or non-member, ISP or 
> end-user, relinquishes a larger block of portable address 
> space to ARIN, they shall be allowed to receive a smaller 
> block, /24 or shorter, in exchange. The organization will 
> not be required to justify their use of the new, smaller 
> block. The organization must return the block to be 
> exchanged within 12 months. 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. If any of the relinquished blocks 
> had associated maintenance fees, then the new block will be 
> subject to the appropriate fees for that block size. 
> Likewise those without maintenance fees shall remain so. 
> 
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