[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2019-20: Harmonization of Maximum Allocation Requirements under Sections 4.1.8 (ARIN Waitlist) and 4.2.2 (Initial Allocation to ISPs)

[ARIN]

On 19 December 2019, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted 
"ARIN-prop-279: Harmonization of Maximum Allocation Requirements under 
Sections 4.1.8 (ARIN Waitlist) and 4.2.2 (Initial Allocation to ISPs)" 
as a Draft Policy.

Draft Policy ARIN-2019-20 is below and can be found at:

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2019_20/

You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will 
evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance of this draft 
policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet number resource policy as 
stated in the Policy Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these 
principles are:

* Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
* Technically Sound
* Supported by the Community

The PDP can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/

Regards,

Sean Hopkins
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)



Draft Policy ARIN-2019-20: Harmonization of Maximum Allocation 
Requirements under Sections 4.1.8 (ARIN Waitlist) and 4.2.2 (Initial 
Allocation to ISPs)

Problem Statement:

Under the current ARIN waitlist policy (section 4.1.8), ARIN now only 
issues IPv4 assignments/allocations (excluding section 4.4 and 4.10 
space) from the ARIN waitlist. The maximum size aggregate for which an 
organization may qualify at any one time is a /22. On the other hand, 
the current initial allocations to ISPs policy (section 4.2.2) provides 
that direct assignments or allocations from ARIN qualify for an initial 
allocation of up to a /21, subject to ARIN’s minimum allocation size. 
This proposal seeks to resolve the conflict in the maximum allocation 
size requirements between the two sections in favour of the requirement 
in the waitlist policy, since that is the one that is intended to govern 
at the present time. Reconciling the policy language as proposed herein 
will avoid confusion by readers of the NRPM.

Policy statement:

Change the first sentence of section 4.2.2 to read:

“All ISP organizations without direct assignments or allocations from 
ARIN qualify for an initial allocation of up to a /22, subject to ARIN’s 
minimum allocation size.”

Timetable for Implementation: Immediate