[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2020-2: Grandfathering of Organizations Removed from Waitlist by Implementation of ARIN-2019-16

[ARIN]

On 19 March 2020, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted 
"ARIN-prop-282: Grandfathering of Organizations Removed from Waitlist by 
Implementation of ARIN-2019-16" as a Draft Policy.

Draft Policy ARIN-2020-2 is below and can be found at:

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2020_2/

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-2020-2: Grandfathering of Organizations Removed from 
Waitlist by Implementation of ARIN-2019-16

Problem Statement:

The implementation of the ARIN-2019-16 Advisory Council Recommendation 
Regarding NRPM 4.1.8: Unmet Requests caused some organizations to be 
removed from the waiting list that were approved under the old policy’s 
eligibility criteria. These organizations should have been grandfathered 
when the waitlist was reopened to allow them to receive an allocation of 
IPv4 up to the new policy’s maximum size constraint of a /22.

Policy Statement: Update NRPM Section 4.1.8 as follows:

Add section 4.1.8.3 (temporary language in the NRPM to remain until the 
policy objective is achieved)

Restoring organizations to the waitlist

ARIN will restore organizations that were removed from the waitlist at 
the adoption of ARIN-2019-16 to their previous position if their total 
holdings of IPv4 address space amounts to a /18 or less. The maximum 
size aggregate that a reinstated organization may qualify for is a /22.

All restored organizations extend their 2 year approval by [number of 
months between July 2019 and implementation of new policy]. Any requests 
met through a transfer will be considered fulfilled and removed from the 
waiting list.

Comments:

Timetable for implementation: Immediate

Anything Else: While attending ARIN 44 and discussing this with other 
community members the vast majority indicated that they agreed that some 
organizations were treated unfairly. This proposal is a remedy.