Advisory Council Meeting Results - May 2011

[ARIN]

The minutes of the May meeting of the ARIN Advisory Council are
available at:
https://www.arin.net/about_us/ac/index.html


> The AC abandoned proposals 139, 142, 143 and 144. Anyone dissatisfied
> with these decisions may initiate a petition. The petition to advance
> these proposals would be the "Discussion Petition." The deadline to
> begin a petition will be five business days after the AC's draft meeting
> minutes are published.

The deadline for petitions is 22 June 2011.

Regards,

Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


ARIN wrote:
> In accordance with the ARIN Policy Development Process the ARIN Advisory
> Council (AC) held a meeting on 19 May 2011 and made decisions about
> several draft policies and proposals.
>
> The AC recommended the following draft policies to the ARIN Board for
> adoption:
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>   ARIN-2011-3: Better IPv6 Allocations for ISPs (revised)
>   ARIN-2011-4: Reserved Pool for Critical Infrastructure
>   ARIN-2011-5: Shared Transition Space for IPv4 Address Extension
>   ARIN-2011-6: Returned IPv4 Addresses
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> ARIN-2011-3 was revised. The renumbering requirement in 6.5.7 was
> removed. This was an oversight; it was something that was discussed
> before and during Last Call.
>
> The following draft policy remains on the AC's docket (motions to send
> to last call and to abandon were unsuccessful):
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>   ARIN-2011-1: Globally Coordinated Transfer Policy
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> The AC selected the following proposal as a draft policy for adoption
> discussion online and at the ARIN XXVIII Public Policy Meeting in
> Philadelphia in October. The draft policy will be posted shortly to the
> PPML.
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>   ARIN-prop-126 Compliance Requirement
>
> The AC accepted the following proposals on to the AC's docket for
> development and evaluation:
>
>   ARIN-prop-140 Business Failure Clarification
>   ARIN-prop-141 Combined M&A and Specified Transfers
>   ARIN-prop-144 Remove Single Aggregate requirement from Specified 
> Transfer
>   ARIN-prop-146 Clarify Justified Need for Transfers
>   ARIN-prop-147 Set Transfer Need to 24 months and Clarify Exception
>
> The AC abandoned the following proposal:
>
>   ARIN-prop-139 No reassignment without network service
>   ARIN-prop-142 Define RSA
>   ARIN-prop-143 Clarify Specified Transfer RSA Requirement
>   ARIN-prop-145 STLS Listing Immunity
>
> The AC chose to abandon prop-139 because the AC determined that there
> was a significant lack of support in the community based on its
> observations of the public policy mailing list. Reasons for the lack of
> support expressed on PPML included the perception that the problems
> addressed by the proposal are not a significant issue in the ARIN
> region, that it would disallow activity generally seen as beneficial,
> that such restrictions would be beyond ARIN's scope, and that the
> restriction may be difficult to enforce.  The author of the proposal
> also suggested abandonment which further underscored the AC's conclusion.
>
> The AC abandoned prop-142 because the majority of the AC felt that the
> RSA is an adjunct document to the NRPM and its definition should not
> reside in policy.
>
> The Advisory Council of ARIN abandoned prop-143: Clarify Specified
> Transfer RSA Requirement. The AC believes that the content and terms of
> contracts between ARIN and holders of address space is an operational
> and legal issue. Prescribing that content is not an appropriate function
> of the ARIN Policy Development Process. The proper avenue for input
> regrading such issues is the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process
> (ACSP).
>
> The AC chose to abandon prop-145 because the AC agreed with ARIN staff
> that this is an issue for the terms of service for the STLS and as such
> is outside the scope of the PDP and NRPM.  The AC also believes that
> except in cases of fraud, it is unlikely that ARIN staff would forcibly
> revoke resources that have already been approved to be on the STLS.  The
> AC advises the community to use the ACSP if they would like to provide
> ARIN input on the terms of service for the STLS or the L/RSA.
>
> The AC thanks the authors and the community for their continuing effort
> and contributions to these and all other policy considerations.
>
> The AC abandoned proposals 139, 142, 143 and 144. Anyone dissatisfied
> with these decisions may initiate a petition. The petition to advance
> these proposals would be the "Discussion Petition." The deadline to
> begin a petition will be five business days after the AC's draft meeting
> minutes are published. For more information on starting and
> participating in petitions, see PDP Petitions at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp_petitions.html
>
> Draft Policy and Proposal texts are available at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html
>
> The ARIN Policy Development Process can be found at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Communications and Member Services
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
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