<div dir="ltr"><h5 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;clear:both;font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></h5><h5 style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;clear:both;font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">8.5.5. Block size</h5><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.2em;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Organizations may qualify for the transfer of a larger initial block, or an additional block, by providing documentation to ARIN which details the use of at least 50% of the requested IPv4 block size within 24 months. An officer of the organization shall attest to the documentation provided to ARIN.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.2em;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Organizations may qualify for an additional block by using a projection of their address use from 6-24 months of allocations or assignments just prior to the transfer request.</span><br></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.2em;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.2em;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I think between 8.3, 8.5.5, and 8.5.6 this still becomes a hazardous guessing game that doesn't account for unexpected growth.  While i'm not fully comfortable with immediate excision of the needs tests, I do believe that relaxing them to a significant degree would be a step in the right direction.  If you're going to re-align an organization's projection timeframe to 6-24 months, it only makes sense to align 8.3 and 8.4 with that new standard of 6 months as well.  That way even if an organization is wrong, there's more than 1 opportunity to correct it within a year (assuming their only source is ARIN); and increases in pricing or address availability are limited to a 6 months timeframe.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.2em;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is there any interest in moving towards a slow-end of the needs based tests; where the minimum 12 months (in 8.3, 8.4, and 8.5.5) becomes 6, after a review period the 6 becomes 3 and later the 3 becomes none as the transfer market is monitored throughout the slow-end to ensure this isn't enabling the negative scenario(s) it's designed to prevent?</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.2em;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:1.2em;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Austin</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:34 PM, WOOD Alison * DAS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alison.WOOD@oregon.gov" target="_blank">Alison.WOOD@oregon.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">






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<div>The ARIN Draft Policy 2017-1 shepherds working with the original author have updated the problem statement and added clarification to section 8.5.5.  The AC would like feedback on the proposed updated problem statement and modification to 8.5.5. We encourage
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<div>Problem Statement (revised):</div>
<div><span style="background-color:yellow">Some number of organizations may be uncomfortable making speculative forward projections (that are now required under NRPM section 8 for purposes of transfer request approval) and prefer that there be available a
more certain approach based solely on extrapolation of their existing IPv4 number usage trend.</span></div>
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<div>And adding the following text to the end of 8.5.5</div>
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<div><span style="background-color:yellow">Organizations may qualify for an additional block by using a projection of their address use from 6-24 months of allocations or assignments just prior to the transfer request.</span></div>
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<div>Thank you!</div>
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