[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-131: Section 5.0 Legacy Addresses

[Owen DeLong]

On Jan 27, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:11 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
>>> ARIN-prop-131: Section 5.0 Legacy Addresses
>> 
>>> Section 5.0 Legacy Addresses
>>> 
>>> 5.1 Returned Legacy Addresses
>>> 
>>> Legacy addresses returned to ARIN will be placed in a hold period not
>>> to exceed thirty days.
>>> 
>>> Upon expiration of the hold period and in the absence of a Global
>>> Policy or Globally Coordinated Policy directing otherwise, legacy
>>> resources returned to ARIN will be made available for allocation to
>>> ARIN members.
>> 
>> Two obvious problems:
>> 
>> 1. ARIN members aren't the only registrants.
> 
> Explain?
> 
Lots of people apply to and receive resources from ARIN that are not
members. The proposal in question makes a statement that these
resources should be made available for allocation only to members.
I suspect this is a linguistic error and not the author's intent, but,
perhaps the author will clarify.

>> 2. This probably conflicts with ARIN's existing process for hold times
>> before reuse.
> 
Owen