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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear ARIN Community Members,</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In our continuing effort to simplify the NRPM, we are also considering the retirement of sections 6.4.1 and 6.4.2.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We believe that section 6.4.1 is out of scope since it constitutes a legal conclusion regarding IPv6 addresses not constituting property, rather than policy.
Section 6.4.2 is a general statement regarding the lack of guarantee of the routability of address space and also provides that RIRs (and not just ARIN) “</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;background:white">must
apply procedures that reduce the possibility of fragmented address space which may lead to a loss of routability”. To the extent that this section validly articulates policy statements, it applies more broadly to both IPv4 and IPv6 resources, and the statement
in the NRMP should only apply to ARIN. In fact, a proper </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">routability constraint statement limited to ARIN is already embedded in Section 1.3 of the NRPM, and thus not needed in Section
6.<span style="color:#333333;background:white">”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;background:white">Community feedback and any proposals to address these sections are welcome.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chris Tacit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NRPM Working Group Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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