Draft Policy ARIN-2014-2: Improving 8.4 Anti-Flip Language

[ARIN]

On 24 January 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted 
"ARIN-prop-194 Improving 8.4 Anti-Flip Language" as a Draft Policy.

Draft Policy ARIN-2014-2 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2014_2.html

You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft 
Policy 2014-2 on the Public Policy Mailing List.

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of this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource 
Policy as stated in the PDP. Specifically, these principles are:

  * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
  * Technically Sound
  * Supported by the Community

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Regards,

Communications and Member Services
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Draft Policy ARIN-2014-2
Improving 8.4 Anti-Flip Language

Date: 29 January 2014

Problem Statement:
8.4 anti-flipping language states:
"Source entities within the ARIN region must not have received a 
transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from ARIN 
for the 12 months prior to the approval of a transfer request. This 
restriction does not include M&A transfers."

This accidentally prevents anyone who receives BLOCK A in 2014 from 
transferring to another RIR a different block, BLOCK B, which was issued 
5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. In my company, we needed to move a block being 
used in Asia over to APNIC. The block was legacy. But because we had 
gotten a new block in 2013, we were prevented from moving the old block 
to a different RIR.

With exhaustion imminent, I think we should remove this policy statement to:
1) Stop the unintentional road blocks of real network situations
2) Recognize that policy must adapt to post-exhaustion, so text like 
this will only cover very corner cases, and in those corner cases, may 
unintended bad consequences.

Policy statement:

Modify 8.4:
Source entities within the ARIN region must not have received a 
transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from ARIN 
for the 12 months prior to the approval of a transfer request. This 
restriction does not include M&A transfers. Restrictions related to 
recent receipt of blocks shall not apply to inter-RIR transfers within 
the same organization and its subsidiaries.

Comments:
a.Timetable for implementation: Immediate
b.Anything else: