[arin-ppml] Reclaiming unused IPv4 space (WAS: Draft Policy 2010-10 (Global Proposal):GlobalPolicy for IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion- Last Call (textrevised))

[Chris Grundemann]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 23:08, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>
>  As noted earlier, there is significant interest in reclaiming resources from organizations which are defunct.  Presently, there is a lack of policy in this area, so ARIN has no direction to "pressure those who may be squatting on unused space simply because they signed up for it in 1990".  We do occasionally see attempts to hijack such space, and can revoke subsequent to a fraud report, and may soon have some recovery of blocks when they have no valid POCs, but at present the most likely path that completely unused space with active contact is going to come back into the system is via the specified transfer policy.  I know that may not be your own preference, but it at least results in overall improved IPv4 resource utilization.

Some questions, for my own clarity:

 1) Today, under current policy and practice, if ARIN becomes aware of
a block of IPv4 that is assigned/allocated to a defunct organization
(and therefor must be unused); you do nothing?
2) Will a POC for an IPv4 block assigned/allocated to a known defunct
organization be allowed to authorize transfer of those resources under
current policy and practice? What happens if there are multiple POCs?
3) If the community adopted a policy which stated that unused
resources assigned/allocated to defunct organizations should be
reclaimed by ARIN, could ARIN reclaim such space? Would you actively
work to?

Thanks,
~Chris

>
> /John
>
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
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