[arin-ppml] Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3: Change Section 9 Out Of Region Use Minimum Criteria

[Quantum]

Hi,

On 2026-09-22 11:51, ARIN wrote:
> This recommendation has been generally supported overwhelmingly by the community, although some community members have expressed a preference to see the elimination of all out-of-region restrictions. The Advisory Council found that this view is not representative of the feedback overwhelmingly expressed by the community and that it maintains key restrictions to prevent attempts to bypass, manipulate, or exploit unintended gaps in this policy to limit potential abuse, and that the policy is suitable to be advanced to recommended status.

Is ARIN just going to ignore all the opposition to this policy proposal 
on the PPML? Last time this policy was brought up on 
https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2026-August/038480.html, 
every reply has been in opposition due to the recent amendment to this 
policy. I don't believe our opposition to this policy was appropriately 
represented in this summary.

Specifically, the opposition centres around the way the policy was 
amended to prohibit out-of-region use as a valid justification for all 
available mechanisms for IPv4 resource acquisition from ARIN directly, 
forcing everyone who needs out-of-region use to resort to section 8 
transfers. This represents a dramatic change from the way ARIN currently 
works and yet, it's effectively smuggled into this unrelated policy that 
claims to "remove some perceived usage minimums" and reduce "harm to 
smaller organizations".

This is problematic for many reasons:

 1. The amendment to this draft policy has more impact than entire draft
    policies. For example, the recommended draft policy ARIN-2025-8 will
    be rendered entirely redundant by the recent amendment added late
    into this draft policy, and ARIN-2025-8 would only prohibit
    out-of-region use for NRPM section 4.10, not the waiting list.
 2. It will be no longer possible for a certain class of resource
    requests, namely those involving out-of-region use, to be serviced
    by ARIN directly. It means that the full suite of ARIN's services
    will no longer be accessible without a third-party willing to
    transfer resources, which in practice requires paying such parties
    large sums of money.
 3. While the rationale of the policy claims to reduce harm to "smaller
    organizations", it actually forces smaller organizations to buy IPv4
    resources instead of using the waiting list. As organizations who
    hold more than /20 in ARIN are not eligible for the waiting list,
    that makes everyone who use the waiting list small organizations in
    the grand scheme of things, and so the policy actually harms a lot
    of "smaller" organizations.

Furthermore, since the draft policy was dramatically amended since the 
previous ARIN meeting, I am not convinced that the "overwhelming" 
support by the community applies to newly amended version, which has 
been met with much criticism on the PPML.

*I find it very concerning that the ARIN Advisory Council ignored all 
the opposition to this policy and acted as if the policy has 
overwhelming support.*

> 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.

This part, specifically, was the main crux of the opposition.

Best regards,
Quantum
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