[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-150 Reclamation Hold

[Matthew Kaufman]

On 5/13/2011 8:38 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:49 AM, ARIN<info at arin.net>  wrote:
>> ARIN-prop-150 Reclamation Hold
>> Proposal Originator: Matthew Kaufman
>>
>> Add a new section to the NRPM:
>> "All resources reclaimed by ARIN shall not be returned to the free pool
>> or otherwise reassigned to any entity than the original registrant for a
>> period of 36 months."
> LIRs are prevented from implementing this sort of policy since such
> reserved addresses do not count towards their utilization. What
> problems are solved by implementing this policy at an RIR level but
> requiring LIRs to not implement the same?

LIRs have direct circuit-level (or equivalent) relationships with the 
address users. RIRs do not.

It would be very unusual for someone to have provider-assigned space and 
no ongoing contact or billing relationship with the provider, whereas 
legacy space in ARIN's database is exactly like that.

>
>
>> This provides sufficient time for the resources to go unused
>> prior to reassignment and/or to be re-justified by the original
>> registrant, or returned to the proper holder in the case of hijackings.
> This could be solved with a much weaker requirement: "ARIN shall not
> reallocate recovered address space while its status is under dispute
> by a prior registrant."

How can the prior registrant initiate a dispute in time if they weren't 
aware of a hijacking and subsequent immediate reclaimation?

Matthew Kaufman