[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14: Needs Attestation for some IPv4 Transfers - Revised

[Andrew Dul]

On 2/24/2015 12:55 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:17 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
>> ARIN-2014-14 has been revised. This draft policy is open for discussion
>> on this mailing list.
> ....
>> Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14
>> Needs Attestation for some IPv4 Transfers
> Trying to better understand the details.....
>
>> 2.An officer of the organization must attest that the IPv4 address
>> block is needed for and will be used on an operational network.
> So no time frame at all for usage in their organization?
> Any time frame is OK?  Any organization is OK?

I believe based upon the current text, the answers to these 3 questions
is "yes."

>
> ....
>> 4.Fewer than 5,000 needs attestation transfers have occurred.
> Where did the 5000 come from?  WAG?  If I calculated
> this correctly, that would mean somewhere between a
> /12 and a /8 could fall under attestation only.

It is basically a WAG.  Originally on the AC list 10,000 was proposed. 
Why 10,000?  On average over the past 5 years, ARIN has made about 2,000
allocations or assignments per year.  Some members of the AC noted a
smaller number was needed, and thus the next draft reduced it to 5,000.

Do you support this number?  If not, is there a number you would be more
comfortable with?

Thanks,
Andrew