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

[William Herrin]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 9:08 AM Jeremy Koski <jsk1978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Grandfathered in may not be the proper term but it is an active argument. Now John may not know this, but I received a large number of addresses in the USA through InterNIC when I was 12. It was justifiable and granted.
>
> Restrictions, reverse dns and other problems came there after when ARIN was formed. Then I began to get threats for $2500 to $5000 but I refused to opt in.
>
> Does one exempt or simply apply new rules where you seem to have forcibly opted in…

Hi Jeremy,

The draft on the table is a change to section 9 of the policy manual.
It applies to qualification for _additional_ IP addresses. If you ask
ARIN for _more_ IP addresses than you currently use, those addresses
you acquired when you were 12 matter. Section 9 then talks about
whether use of those old addresses elsewhere in the world qualifies as
"in use" for the purpose of justifying the *NEW* addresses. Not
justifying the old ones, justifying the *new* ones.

If you're not asking for more addresses for the same registrant then
section 9 is not applicable to your legacy addresses at all.

Regards,
Bill Herrin