Policy Proposal: Legacy Outreach and Partial Reclamation

[Member Services]

On 19 July 2007, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) postponed their decision
regarding the proposal titled "Legacy Outreach and Partial Reclamation"
in order to work with the author. The AC will work with the author to
clarify, combine or divide the proposal. At the next regularly scheduled
AC meeting, the AC will make their decision to accept or not accept the
proposal as a formal policy proposal.

The proposal text is below and can be found at:
http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/submission_archive.html

The ARIN Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process can be found at:
http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html

Regards,

Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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> Owen DeLong wrote:
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>>Here's an attempt to partially drain the swamp and create some  
>>incentives
>>for legacy holders to both return available IPv4 space and start using
>>IPv6.
>>
>>Comments welcome.
>>
>>Owen
>>
>>
>>Template: ARIN-POLICY-PROPOSAL-TEMPLATE-1.0
>>
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>>Policy Proposal Name: Legacy Outreach and Partial Reclamation
>>Author
>>	name: Owen DeLong
>>	email: owen at delong.com
>>	telephone: 408-921-6984
>>	organization: JITTR Networks
>>
>>Proposal Version: 0.0.1
>>Submission Date: 2007 April 22
>>Proposal type: M
>>	new, modify, or delete.
>>Policy term: permanent
>>	temporary, permanent, or renewable.
>>Policy statement:
>>	Modify section 4.6 as follows:
>>
>>	4.6 Amnesty Requests
>>		ARIN will accept the return or relinquishment of any address space
>>		from any existing address holder. If the address holder wishes to
>>		aggregate into a single block, ARIN may work with the address holder
>>		to arrive at an allocation or assignment which is equal to or smaller
>>		than the sum of their existing blocks and which best meets the needs
>>		of the existing holder and the community. There shall be no fee for
>>		returning addresses under this policy.  Further, organizations
>>		returning addresses under this policy shall receive the following
>>		benefits:
>>
>>			1.	If the organization does not currently pay ARIN
>>				fees, they shall remain fee exempt.
>>
>>			2.	If the organization currently pays ARIN fees,
>>				their fees shall be waived for two years for
>>				each /20 equivalent returned, with any fractional /20
>>				equivalent resulting in a one-time single year waiver.
>>
>>			3.	Any organization returning address space under
>>				this policy shall continue under their existing
>>				RSA or they may choose to sign the current RSA.
>>				For organizations which currently do not
>>				have an RSA, they may sign the current RSA, or,
>>				they may choose to remain without an RSA.
>>
>>			4.	All organizations returning space under this
>>				policy shall, if they meet other eligibility
>>				requirements and so request, obtain an
>>				appropriate IPv6 end-user assignment
>>				or ISP allocation as applicable, with no fees
>>				for the first 5 years.  Organizations electing
>>				to receive IPv6 allocation/assignment under
>>				this provision must sign a current RSA and
>>				must agree that all of their IPv4 resources are
>>				henceforth subject to the RSA. Organizations
>>				taking this election shall be subject to end-user
>>				fees for their IPv4 resources not previously
>>				under an ARIN RSA.  If they are already an
>>				ARIN subscriber, then IPv4 resources
>>				affected by this process may, instead,  be added to
>>				their existing subscriber agreement at the
>>				address holder's discretion.
>>
>>Rationale:
>>
>>	The current amnesty policy does a nice job of facilitating
>>	aggregation, which was the intent when it was drafted.  However,
>>	as we approach IPv4 free-space exhaustion, the community now
>>	has an additional need to facilitate address reclamation.
>>
>>	A very high percentage of underutilized space is in the hands of
>>	legacy holders who currently have no benefit to joining the ARIN
>>	process.  Further, there is an unfortunate perception that doing
>>	so will require force the legacy holder into certain future  
>>disadvantages.
>>	This proposal attempts to resolve both of those issues while also
>>	providing some incentive to legacy organizations to start using
>>	IPv6 resources and bring their IPv4 resources into the ARIN
>>	process.
>>
>>	This policy attempts to provide some benefit and remove most of
>>	the costs of making partial IPv4 returns.  It also attempts to
>>	provide an incentive for these IPv4 holders to join the ARIN
>>	process.
>>
>>Timetable for implementation:
>>
>>	Immediate
>>
>>Meeting presenter:
>>
>>	TBD, probably Owen DeLong
>>
>>END OF TEMPLATE
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