[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2025-5: Clarify justification requirements for 4.4, 4.10, 6.10, and 11.10 IP addresses

[Martin Hannigan]

- not in favor

Poor policy writing to stamp multiple sections with boilerplate and set up
future conflict with Section 9 - and bloat the NRPM additionally.

Warm regards,

-M>


On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 14:35 ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:

> On 26 June 2025, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted “ARIN-prop-344:
> Clarify justification requirements for 4.4, 4.10, 6.10, and 11.10 IP
> addresses” as Draft Policy.
>
> Draft Policy ARIN-2025-5 is below and can be found at:
>
> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2025_5
>
> You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will
> evaluate the discussion 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,
>
> Eddie Diego
> Policy Analyst
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>
>
>
> Draft Policy ARIN-2025-5: Clarify justification requirements for 4.4,
> 4.10, 6.10, and 11.10 IP addresses
>
> Problem Statement:
>
> The NRPM text is ambiguous about whether out of region use cases can
> justify requests for IP addresses allocated under 4.4, 4.10, 6.10, and
> 11.10, as well as whether these IP Addresses impact justification
> requirements for normal IP addresses. This change codifies ARIN Staff's
> current practices to remove this ambiguity, removing a source of confusion
> for resource requesters.
>
> Policy statement:
>
> Add the following to 4.4:
> Justifications for resources under this section must be for use within the
> ARIN service region. Resources issued under this section may also be used
> out of
> region if that use is consistent with the in-region justification (for
> example, global Anycast). Resources issued under this section have no
> impact on the justification or utilization requirements for requests under
> any other section.
>
> Add the following to 4.10:
> Justifications for resources under this section must be for use within the
> ARIN service region. Resources issued under this section may also be used
> out of region if that use is consistent with the in-region justification
> (for example, global Anycast). Resources issued under this section have no
> impact on the justification or utilization requirements for requests under
> any other section.
>
> Add the following to 6.10:
> Justifications for resources under this section must be for use within the
> ARIN service region. Resources issued under this section may also be used
> out of region if that use is consistent with the in-region justification
> (for example, global Anycast). Resources issued under this section have no
> impact on the justification or utilization requirements for requests under
> any other section.
>
> Add Section 11.10:
> Justifications for resources under this section must be for use within the
> ARIN service region. Resources issued under this section may also be used
> out of region if that use is consistent with the in-region justification
> (for example, global Anycast). Resources issued under this section have no
> impact on the justification or utilization requirements for requests under
> any other section.
>
> Time Table for Implementation: Immediate
>
>
>
>
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