[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-147 Set Transfer Need to 24 months and Clarify Exception

[Leif Sawyer]

I do support this proposal:

I live in Alaska, and unfortunately for Alaskan businesses,  there is no year-round
construction season.

What this means for us is that we Alaskan LIRs/ISPs have two-to-three-year
construction schedules based on ground-thaw dates and tundra-freeze dates.
Geographically speaking, this can translate into a construction "season" of
less than 5 months.

It was hard enough with the 12-month need, but we managed.

3-month need can break a company, depending on where/when/how new expansion
takes place.

24-month need would help tremendously in these situations,  not just in terms
of guaranteeing available address space, but also in terms of keeping
the number of advertised netblocks down to the minimum required to support
the area.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net 
> [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of David Farmer
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 8:19 AM
> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-147 Set Transfer Need to 
> 24 months and Clarify Exception
> 
> While I'm not yet convinced this change is absolutely necessary, and 
> reserve final judgment until this has been fully discussed.  
> However, I 
> support this proposal moving forward and it should be presented and 
> fully discussed in Philadelphia.  I think is important that 
> we carefully 
> reevaluate the criteria we have for the evaluation of needs basis in 
> light of the change to market-like competition for IPv4 
> address space. 
> I think it is important to retain a needs basis, but the needs basis 
> that worked when there was an IANA free pool may not automatically be 
> valid in a market-like situation.
> 
> On 5/2/11 13:00 CDT, ARIN wrote:
> 
> > ARIN-prop-147 Set Transfer Need to 24 months and Clarify Exception
> >
> > Proposal Originator: Matthew Kaufman
> >
> > Proposal Version: 1
> >
> > Date: 2 May 2011
> >
> > Proposal type: new
> >
> > Policy term: permanent
> >
> > Policy statement:
> >
> > Change section 4.2.4.4 content as follows:
> >
> > Replace:
> > "This reduction does not apply to resources received via 
> section 8.3. An
> > organization receiving a transfer under section 8.3 may continue to
> > request up to a 12-month supply of IP addresses."
> >
> > With:
> > "This reduction does not apply to resources received via 
> transfer. An
> > organization receiving a transfer under section 8 may 
> request up to a
> > 24-month supply of IP addresses."
> >
> > Rationale:
> >
> > The exception should apply to transfers under 8.2 as well 
> as 8.3 (and
> > any future transfer policies).
> >
> > Due to the complexity of the financial transaction that may be
> > involved and the associated budgeting on the part of the receiving
> > organization, 24 months is a more reasonable amount of 
> forecast need to
> > allow to be fulfilled via the transfer process.
> >
> > Potential benefit to address aggregation by allowing fewer larger
> > transfers sooner.
> >
> > Timetable for implementation: immediate
> >
> >
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