ARIN-prop-150 Reclamation Hold

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ARIN-prop-150 Reclamation Hold

ARIN received the following policy proposal and is posting it to the
Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) in accordance with the Policy
Development Process.

The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) will review the proposal at their next
regularly scheduled meeting (if the period before the next regularly
scheduled meeting is less than 10 days, then the period may be extended
to the subsequent regularly scheduled meeting). The AC will decide how
to utilize the proposal and announce the decision to the PPML.

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particularly their support or non-support and the reasoning
behind their opinion. Such participation contributes to a thorough
vetting and provides important guidance to the AC in their deliberations.

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Regards,

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


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ARIN-prop-150 Reclamation Hold

Proposal Originator: Matthew Kaufman

Proposal Version: 1

Date: 13 May 2011

Proposal type: new

Policy term: permanent

Policy statement:

Add a new section to the NRPM:
"All resources reclaimed by ARIN shall not be returned to the free pool
or otherwise reassigned to any entity than the original registrant for a
period of 36 months."

Rationale:
As the pressures on the system become greater with IPv4 runout, there
will be more call for ARIN to reclaim address space. When addresses that
are reclaimed are reused too soon, a variety of undesirable outcomes may
result. This provides sufficient time for the resources to go unused
prior to reassignment and/or to be re-justified by the original
registrant, or returned to the proper holder in the case of hijackings.
This policy could be restricted to IPv4 space, but it may be useful for
AS numbers and has no major impact on IPv6 space (due to the large free
pool), so it might as well apply to all.

Timetable for implementation: immediate