Board Adopts Draft Policies

[ARIN]

On 16 December 2011 the ARIN Board of Trustees adopted the following 
policies:

ARIN-2011-8: Combined M&A and Specified Transfers
ARIN-2011-9 (Global Proposal): Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 
allocation mechanisms by the IANA
ARIN-2011-10: Remove Single Aggregate requirement from Specified Transfer

2011-8 and 2011-10 will be implemented no later than 29 February 2012.

2011-9 is a global proposal and as such awaits the conclusion of the 
Global Policy Development Process.

Not adopted:
At this time the Board has not adopted 2011-1: Inter-RIR transfers. As 
stated in the minutes, "The ARIN Board of Trustees takes the 
recommendation of Draft Policy ARIN-2011-1: Inter-RIR Transfers formally 
under advisement pending a final community discussion at the ARIN XXIX 
Public Policy Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Furthermore, the 
Board of Trustees directs the President immediately start implementation 
of this policy in parallel, with final policy availability held until 
otherwise directed by the Board." See the minutes for more information 
on this item.

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes are available at:
https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot/index.html

Draft Policy and Policy 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)