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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I want to express my opposition to this change in the proposal.</p>
<p>The original rationale of Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3, as many
people in the community seems to have understood it, was to make
it easier for smaller businesses without at least a /22's worth of
IP space to utilize ARIN space out of region. However, this change
now explicitly forbids anyone, even those who demonstratively have
a "real and substantial connection with the ARIN region", per the
current text of NRPM section 9, from requesting waiting list space
for out-of-region use, which is currently allowed. If they want to
do so, they must now get it from the "transfer market" instead.</p>
<p>It is not clear to me why we should be penalizing smaller
businesses who may not be able to afford IP space from the
transfer market, who would otherwise have qualified for the
waiting list under the current wording of NRPM 9, especially not
in a policy that purports to <i>relax</i> the minimum criteria
under section 9 and make it more accessible.</p>
<p></p>
<p>This seems like a massive departure from the original goal of the
draft policy. In my mind, this feels like a bigger change to ARIN
policy than the /22 to /24 change. I can't in good conscience
support such an amendment to a policy titled "Change Section 9 Out
Of Region Use Minimum Criteria".</p>
<p>If it is the will of the ARIN community to prohibit the use of
section 4.1.8 for out-of-region IP space requests, then it should
be done as a separate policy with a clear objective, i.e. one
titled "Eliminating Out-of-Region Use of ARIN Waiting List," and
discussed appropriately. It should not introduced as an amendment
to ARIN-2025-3, originally intended for something completely
different.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the total prohibition of out-of-region usage
justification the waiting list now puts global anycast
deployments, which necessarily involves announcing the same subnet
simultaneously inside and outside of the ARIN region, in a grey
area. By phrasing it this way, it invites further questions and
may cause ARIN staff to reject any waiting list justification that
involves anycast, which is permissible under ARIN policy today. I
don't think this is something we want to do.</p>
<p>Finally, I have concerns regarding the draft language:</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2026/7/13 10:11, Gerry George via
ARIN-PPML wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:19f5bd1d3f9.7753a67859470.7536067822122564484@digisolv.com">
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style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size"
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class="colour" style="color:black"><span class="font"
style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span
class="size" style="font-size:12pt">Suggested text
- Option 1:</span></span></span></span></span><br>
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style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size"
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt" class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size"
style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><b><i><span
class="font" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Out
of Region usage justification can only be used to
acquire IPv4 addresses from the transfer market.
Any organization on the Waiting List at the time
this policy is implemented will be
grandfathered-in.</span></i></b></span></span><br>
</p>
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<p> As you mentioned, this wording will force ARIN to define the
concept of a "transfer market", which opens a whole can of worms.
For example, it is not clear to me that mergers & acquisitions
under NRPM section 8.2 would qualify as part of the "transfer
market" under the obvious definition of market, which opens a
whole can of worms if organization A acquires organization B and
wishes to keep organization B's IP space that was used out of
region in the same state.</p>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:19f5bd1d3f9.7753a67859470.7536067822122564484@digisolv.com">
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style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;" class="size"><span
style="color:black" class="colour"><span
style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span
style="font-size:12pt" class="size">Suggested text
- Option 2:</span></span></span></span></span><br>
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style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size"
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style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in" class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size"
style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b><i><span
class="font" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Out
of Region usage justification may not be used to
receive IPv4 addresses from the ARIN Waitlist
(4.1.8), Micro-allocation pool (4.4) or Dedicated
IPv4 Allocation to facilitate IPv6 Deployment
(4.10). Any organization on the Waiting List at
the time this policy is implemented will be
grandfathered-in.</span></i></b></span></span><span
class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span
class="size" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><span
class="font" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></span><br>
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<p>As ARIN staff have commented in <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2025_3/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2025_3/</a>,
section 9 does not apply to section 4.4 or section 4.10 already,
so I am not sure it is necessary to mention them here.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
Quantum</p>
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