<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Apologies for the late revision. Authors have been communicating with ARIN</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">counsel in an effort to refine language and try to achieve agreement on the content</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">of the policy proposal.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Changes in this revision:</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Minor edits to bring the language closer to compliance with requests from staff<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>and legal. Authors do not believe these edits constitute substantive change<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>to the intent of the policy.<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Minor changes to language to improve clarity and sentence structure.<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Authors do not believe these edits constitute a substantive change to the<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>intent of the policy.<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In fairness, not all of the requests from legal were addressed the way legal<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>wanted. There are limitations on ARIN contained in this proposal which</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>counsel opposed. I'll leave it to legal to present those in their analysis<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>which should come out shortly because I do not want to mis-characterize<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>them.<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>However, the authors have been in contact with legal and the places where<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>we have agreed to disagree are not new to this version of the policy.<br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">#################################################################</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Policy Proposal 2007-14<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><br></span>Resource Review Process</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Author: Owen DeLong, Stephen Sprunk</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Proposal Version: 3.1</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Date: 14 August 2008</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Proposal type: modify</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Policy term: permanent</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Policy statement:</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Add the following to the NRPM:</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Resource Review</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">1. ARIN may review the current usage of any resources maintained in the ARIN database. The organization shall cooperate with any request from ARIN for reasonable related documentation.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">2. ARIN may conduct such reviews:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">a. when any new resource is requested,</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">b. whenever ARIN has reason to believe that the resources were originally obtained fraudulently <b>or in contravention of existing policy</b>, or</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">c. at any other time without having to establish cause unless a prior review has been completed in the preceding 24 months.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">3. ARIN shall communicate the results of the review to the organization.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">4. Organizations found by ARIN to be <b> materially</b> out of compliance with current ARIN policy shall be requested or required to return resources as needed to bring them into (or reasonably close to) compliance. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">4a. The degree to which an organization may remain out of compliance shall be based on the reasonable judgment of the ARIN staff and shall balance all facts known, including the organization’s utilization rate,<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><br></span>available address pool, and other factors as appropriate so as to avoid forcing returns which will result in near-term additional requests or unnecessary route de-aggregation.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">4b. To the extent possible, entire blocks should be returned. Partial address blocks shall be returned in such a way that the portion retained will comprise a single aggregate block.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">5. If the organization does not voluntarily return resources as requested, ARIN may revoke any resources issued by ARIN as required to bring the organization into overall compliance. ARIN shall follow the same guidelines for revocation that are required for voluntary return in the previous paragraph.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">6. Except in cases of fraud, or violations of policy, an organization shall be given a minimum of six months to effect a return. ARIN shall negotiate a longer term with the organization if ARIN believes the organization is working in good faith to substantially restore compliance and has a valid need for additional time to renumber out of the affected blocks.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">7. ARIN shall continue to provide services for the resource(s) while their return or revocation is pending,<b> however,</b> any maintenance fees assessed during that period shall be calculated as if the return or revocation was complete.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">8. ARIN will not reclaim or revoke Legacy resources in active use, regardless of utilization. However, the utilization of legacy resources shall be considered during a review to assess overall compliance.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">9. In considering compliance with policies which allow a timeframe (such as a requirement to assign some number of prefixes within 5 years), failure to comply cannot be measured until after the timeframe specified in the applicable policy has elapsed. Blocks subject to such a policy shall be assumed in compliance with that policy until such time as the specified time since issuance has elapsed.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Delete NRPM sections 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Remove the sentence "In extreme cases, existing allocations may be affected." from NRPM section 4.2.3.1.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Rationale:</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Under current policy and existing RSAs, ARIN has an unlimited authority to audit or review a resource holder's utilization for compliance at any time and no requirement to communicate the results of any such review to the resource holder.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">This policy attempts to balance the needs of the community and the potential for abuse of process by ARIN in a way that better clarifies the purpose, scope, and capabilities of ARIN and codifies some appropriate protections for resource holders while still preserving the ability for ARIN to address cases of fraud and abuse on an expedited basis.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">The intended nature of the review is to be no more invasive than what usually happens when an organization applies for additional resources. Additionally, paragraph 2c prevents ARIN from doing excessive without-cause reviews.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">The authors believe that this update addresses the majority of the feedback received from the community to date and addresses most of the concerns expressed.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">#####</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 12px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 12px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 12px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 12px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 12px; "><br></p></div></body></html>