ARIN-prop-164 Predictable ARIN IPv4 Resource exhaustion

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ARIN-prop-164 Predictable ARIN IPv4 Resource exhaustion

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.

The AC invites everyone to comment on the proposal on the PPML,
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.

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found 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

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Regards,

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


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ARIN-prop-164 Predictable ARIN IPv4 Resource exhaustion

Proposal Originator: Joe Maimon

Proposal Version: 1.0

Date: 1 February 2012

Proposal type: New

Policy term: Temporary

Policy statement:

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Upon the last calendar date of the year that this proposal is adopted,
ARIN will disburse all of its available IPv4 resources to its existing
members, in proportion to their fee schedule, with the smallest
allocation of size /24, to be effective immediately.

Rationale:

Many people feel that ARIN has too much available resources. Many people
also believe that the uncertainty as to when ARIN will run out of these
resources is not good. This proposal seeks to resolve both of these
concerns.

Timetable for implementation: Immediate