Initiation of Petition was Re: Proposed Policy: IPv4 Countdown - not accepted by AC as formal policy proposal

[Member Services]

The deadline for issuing statements of support for this petition is 
12:00 noon ET, 21 March 2007.

Per the ARIN Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process, "People who 
wish to document their support for the petition must do the following: 
1) post a response to the Public Policy Mailing List stating their 
support for the proposal, and 2) send email to petition at arin.net with 
full point of contact information, including their telephone number and 
organizational affiliation. The ARIN President will verify whether 
people from at least four different organizations support the petitioned 
policy proposal."

If the petition is successful, the policy proposal will be numbered, 
posted online for discussion, and presented at the upcoming Public 
Policy Meeting in San Juan.

If the petition is not successful, the policy proposal will be 
considered closed.

Regards,

Member Services Department
American Registry for Internet Numbers



Toshiyuki Hosaka wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> This is a formal petition request to advance the policy proposal entitled "IPv4
> Countdown Policy Proposal". The full text of the proposal is posted on the ARIN
> website at the following URL:
> 
>   http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-February/006000.html
> 
> This policy proposal was to respond in an orderly way to the upcoming exhaustion
> of the IPv4 address space. The AC rejected this proposal due to anti-trust
> issues however I strongly believe that we should discuss this kind of policy in
> the ARIN open policy forum, rather than simple rejection, since IPv4 address 
> exhaustion is so important issue to the whole community.
> 
> According to the Internet Policy Evaluation Process, people who wish to document
> their support for the petition must do the following within the next five (5) days:
> 
>   1) post a response to the Public Policy Mailing List stating their
>      support for the proposal,
> 
>    and,
> 
>   2) send email to petition at arin.net with full point of contact
>      information, including their telephone number and organizational
>      affiliation.
> 
> If you have any questions about this process you can refer to the ARIN website
> at http://www.arin.net/policy/ipep.html for the full text explaining the
> petition process.
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> Toshi
> --
> Toshiyuki Hosaka <hosaka at nic.ad.jp>
> JPNIC
> 
> 
> 
> Member Services wrote (2007/03/03 2:47):
> 
>>On 1 March 2007 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) concluded its review of
>>the proposed policy 'IPv4 Countdown' and did not accept it as a formal
>>policy proposal.
>>
>>The AC rejected this proposal having taken into consideration the
>>anti-trust issues raised by the ARIN General Counsel and because the AC
>>deemed the proposal to be contrary to ARIN's mission.
>>
>>During the initial review period the AC may decide to:
>>1)  Accept the proposal as a formal policy proposal as it is presented,
>>2)  Work with the author to clarify, divide or combine it with another
>>proposal, or
>>3)  Not accept the policy proposal.
>>
>>In the event that the AC decides not to accept the proposed policy, then
>>the author may elect to use the petition process to advance the
>>proposal. For petition details see the section called "Petition
>>Process" in the ARIN Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process which
>>can be found at:
>>http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html
>>
>>The deadline for the author to initiate a petition per the ARIN Internet
>>Resource Policy Evaluation Process is 40 days prior to the meeting; the
>>petition deadline for the ARIN XIX Public Policy Meeting
>>is 14 March 2007. If the author chooses not to petition or the petition
>>is unsuccessful, then the proposed policy is closed. If a petition is
>>successful, then the proposal will be numbered and posted for discussion
>>and presented at ARIN's Public Policy Meeting.
>>
>>The proposed policy text can be found at:
>>http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-February/006000.html
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Member Services
>>American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>>
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>>
> 
> 
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