[arin-ppml] Request for Comment & Feedback: Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3: Change Section 9 Out Of Region Use Minimum Criteria

[Tom Fantacone]

Gerry,



Thanks for the clarifications.  



I support the policy as written in Option 2.  It's very clear and explicit.



Using the term "transfer market" as in Option 2 is bound to create ambiguity since the term is not defined anywhere in the NRPM.



Regards,



Tom Fantacone






From: Gerry George via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml at arin.net>
To: "ARIN PPML"<arin-ppml at arin.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:11:45 -0600
Subject: [arin-ppml] Request for Comment & Feedback: Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3: Change Section 9 Out Of Region Use Minimum Criteria



Good day and greetings, ARIN community.



We had a suggestion for some modified text to the Draft Policy, primarily in response to feedback and reactions from ARIN 57 and PPML discussions, as many of the concerns related to potential gaming of the system to access the ARIN address pool for out-of-region use.  The brief background and suggested change text is as follows:





As a reminder, this proposal is to modify the following text in Section 9:

 

  *   FROM: IPv4: At least a /22 used in region.

  *   TO: IPv4: At least a /24 used in region.

  


The intent is to amend the proposal, including text to specifically exclude out of region usage as justification to get IPv4 from the waiting list. 

Suggested text - Option 1:

 

Out of Region usage justification can only be used to acquire IPv4 addresses from the transfer market.  Any organization on the Waiting List at the time this policy is implemented will be grandfathered-in.

Suggested text - Option 2:

 

Out of Region usage justification may not be used to receive IPv4 addresses from the ARIN Waitlist (4.1.8), Micro-allocation pool (4.4) or Dedicated IPv4 Allocation to facilitate IPv6 Deployment (4.10).  Any organization on the Waiting List at the time this policy is implemented will be grandfathered-in.

 

The first option is shorter, and does not specifically refer to ARIN reserve pools, which could change.  The second option does not include the term “transfer market”.  That term does not appear in the NRPM, and directly mentions the waiting list.

 


The full change to the policy will thus be:



Problem Statement

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#9-out-of-region-use  of the NRPM, Out of Region Use, requires organizations to use at least a /22 in the ARIN region before they can justify out of region use. This harms smaller organizations that have less than a /22 in region but do require some out of region use.

Policy Statement

Modify the following text in  https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#9-out-of-region-use :

FROM: 

IPv4: At least a /22 used in region.

TO:

 IPv4: At least a /24 used in region.




ADDITIONAL TEXT:

Out of Region usage justification can only be used to acquire IPv4 addresses from the transfer market.  

Any organization already on the Waiting List at the time this policy is implemented will be exempted and shall remain eligible under the rules in effect at the time of its placement on the Waiting List.

[Organizations on the Waiting List at the time this policy takes effect shall be exempted and will not be affected by this change.]


OR

Out-of-Region Usage Justification may not be used to receive IPv4 address space from the ARIN Waiting List (4.1.8), the Micro-allocation Pool (4.4), or the Dedicated IPv4 Block to Facilitate IPv6 Deployment (4.10). 

Any organization already on the Waiting List at the time this policy is implemented will be exempted and shall remain eligible under the rules in effect at the time of its placement on the Waiting List.

[Organizations on the Waiting List at the time this policy takes effect shall be exempted and will not be affected by this change.]




Note the text in square brackets suggests the intent of the last sentence, and may be considered for substitution for brevity.





Please submit your comments of support, dissent, encouragement or disapproval for the policy, and for the proposed text changes. 




Regards




Gerry E. George

ICT Consultant and Business Solutions Architect;


DigiSolv, Inc. [P.O. Box 1677, Castries, Saint Lucia] 


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