Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14: Removing Needs Test from Small IPv4 Transfers

[ARIN]

On 15 May 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-204 
Removing Needs Test from Small IPv4 Transfers" as a Draft Policy.

Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2014_14.html

You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft
Policy 2014-14 on the Public Policy Mailing List.

The AC will evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance
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

The ARIN Policy Development Process (PDP) can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html

Regards,

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


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Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14
Removing Needs Test from Small IPv4 Transfers

Date: 16 May 2014

Problem Statement:

ARIN staff, faced with a surge in near-exhaust allocations and 
subsequent transfer requests and a requirement for team review of these, 
is spending scarce staff time on needs testing of small transfers. This 
proposal seeks to decrease overall ARIN processing time through 
elimination of that needs test.

Policy statement:

Change the language in NRPM 8.3 after Conditions on the recipient of the 
transfer: from "The recipient must demonstrate the need for up to a 
24-month supply of IP address resources under current ARIN policies and 
sign an RSA." to "For transfers larger than a /16 equivalent or for 
recipients who have completed a needs-free transfer in the prior year, 
the recipient must demonstrate the need for up to a 24-month supply of 
IP address resources under current ARIN policies and sign an RSA."

Change the language in the third bullet point in NRPM 8.4 after 
Conditions on the recipient of the transfer: from "Recipients within the 
ARIN region must demonstrate the need for up to a 24-month supply of 
IPv4 address space." to "For transfers larger than a /16 equivalent or 
for recipients who have completed a needs-free transfer in the prior 
year, recipients in the ARIN region must demonstrate the need for up to 
a 24-month supply of IP address resources under current ARIN policies 
and sign an RSA."

Comments:

Needs testing has been maintained for transfers largely because the 
community wishes to ensure protection against hoarding and speculation 
in the IPv4 market. This proposal seeks a middle ground between the 
elimination of needs tests for transfers altogether, and the continuance 
of needs tests for every transfer. This should help ARIN staff to reduce 
transfer processing time, since most transfers have been smaller than /16.

Timetable for implementation: Immediate