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

[Eric C. Landgraf]

On Mar 18 12:00, arin-ppml-request at arin.net wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:31:24 -0400
> From: "Eddie Stauble" <eddie at sum.net>
>
> There were also concerns expressed about unlimited openness to out of region
> use.  Strangely, there is a lower limit on in-region use, but there is no
> upper limit to how much space can be used out of region, as long as you have
> a /22 in region.  Has this been a problem?

Should we rewrite the policy to allow any amount of out-of-region use so
long as it is less than or equal to in-region use?  (Obviously the usual
needs-based rules also apply).  In practice, this means if you use a /24
in-region you can use up to a /24 out-of-region; for v6 that would
probably be a /48 in and out-of-region.  Personally, I don't even care
what the limits are: if you want to use a directly-allocated /32 of v4
space out-of-region instead of going through an LIR, that is up to you
(provided your transit provider will accept the route and all).

Using more addresses/prefixes in-region than out-of-region seems like
sufficient evidence of "real and substantial connection with the ARIN
region" and is far better than arbitrary length-based rules.

	ECL