[arin-ppml] Fwd: Advisory Council Meeting Results - December 2019

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There are those that wanted to become landlords of IPv4.  I think this 
kinda shoots down those hopes.

Albert


On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, Fernando Frediani wrote:

> What a great thing to read about ARIN-2019-18 and a good message to 
> 'lessors-to-be' or 'number resource landlords'. Well done AC.
>
> On 03/01/2020 18:42, ARIN wrote:
>> The minutes from the ARIN Advisory Council's 19 December 2019 meeting have 
>> been published:
>> 
>> https://www.arin.net/about/welcome/ac/meetings/2019_1219/
>> 
>> Regarding  Draft Policy ARIN-2019-18, the AC has released the following 
>> statement:
>> 
>> "At its monthly meeting on December 19 2019, the ARIN AC voted unanimously 
>> to abandon ARIN-2019-18: LIR/ISP Re-Assignment to Non-Connected Networks.
>> 
>> At the public policy meeting at ARIN 44 and on PPML, there was near 
>> universal opposition to expanding demonstrated need to encompass acquiring 
>> more space for the purposes of leasing it decoupled from any requirement 
>> for the lessor to be providing connectivity services. Reasons for 
>> opposition included that this would facilitate creating a class of "number 
>> resource landlords" as well as the observation that this would essentially 
>> constitute an end run around any sort of accountability for demonstrated 
>> need in the actual user of the number resources.  A distinction was drawn 
>> between leasing addresses that an organization already has (which received 
>> somewhat more support on the basis of whois accuracy and the observation 
>> that it is happening anyway) and allowing 
>> leased-without-a-connectivity-contract space to count as justification to 
>> acquire more space.
>> 
>> In the shepherds' opinion there is more work to be done in this space, 
>> particularly surrounding accommodating financing for organizations that are 
>> unable to afford cash on the barrelhead for number resources. We 
>> enthusiastically solicit the community for new proposals that might address 
>> these issues."
>> 
>> The petition deadline for this Draft Policy is 8 January 2020 (in five 
>> calendar days).
>> 
>> For more information on starting and participating in petitions, see:
>> 
>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/#part-three-pdp-petition-process 
>> 
>> Draft Policy and Proposal texts are available at:
>> 
>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Sean Hopkins
>> Policy Analyst
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: Advisory Council Meeting Results - December 2019
>> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 09:35:20 -0500
>> From: ARIN <info at arin.net>
>> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
>> 
>> The AC has abandoned the following Draft Policy:
>> 
>> * ARIN-2019-18: LIR/ISP Re-Assignment to Non-Connected Networks
>> 
>> Regarding ARIN-2019-18, the AC statement is forthcoming.
>> 
>> Anyone dissatisfied with these decisions may initiate a petition. The 
>> deadline to begin a petition will be five business days after the AC's 
>> draft meeting minutes are published.
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