[arin-ppml] Advisory Council Meeting Results - April 2026

[ARIN]

In accordance with the Policy Development Process (PDP), the Advisory Council met on 22 April 2026.

The AC has advanced the following to Recommended Draft Policy status (will be posted separately for discussion):

*ARIN-2025-8: Reserve 4.10 space for In-Region Use

The AC advances Draft Policies to Recommended Draft Policy status once they have been fully developed and meet ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource Policy. Specifically, these principles are:

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

AC Assessment of Conformance with the Principles of Internet Number Resource Policy:

"Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2025-8 conforms to the principles of the ARIN Policy Development Process. This policy, if adopted, clarifies within the NRPM ARIN’s current practices for managing IPv4 addresses allocated to facilitate IPv6 Deployment (IPv4 allocations governed by Section 4.10 in the NRPM). There were concerns from a small subset of the community that the added language was too ambiguous. Follow-ups to both the PPML and at the ARIN 57 in-person meeting did not reveal any additional concerns about the ambiguity of the language in this policy, nor did they yield any suggestions for how the wording could be made less ambiguous. This policy did receive community support both at the most recent ARIN meeting and in prior meetings. We have found this policy to be fair and impartial, and technically sound."



The AC is continuing to work on:

Draft Policies:

*ARIN-2025-1: Clarify ISP and LIR Definitions and References to Address Ambiguity in NRPM Text
*ARIN-2025-3: Change Section 9 Out Of Region Use Minimum Criteria
*ARIN-2025-6: Fix formula in 6.5.2.1c
*ARIN-2025-7: Make policy in 6.5.8.2 match the examples
*ARIN-2026-1: Taking IP To Other Planets (TIPTOP)


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

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

PDP Petition information can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/petitions/

Regards,

Eddie Diego
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)