LAST CALL: Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2013-7: NRPM 4 (IPv4) Policy Cleanup

[ARIN]

The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 15 May 2014 and decided to
send the following to last call:

   Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2013-7: NRPM 4 (IPv4) Policy Cleanup

2013-7 was revised. The following sentence was added to 4.2.4.3:
"Determination of the appropriate allocation to be issued is based on 
efficient utilization of space within this time frame, consistent with 
the principles in 4.2.1."

Feedback is encouraged during the last call period. All comments should
be provided to the Public Policy Mailing List. This last call will
expire on 2 June 2014. After last call the AC will conduct their
last call review.

The draft policy text is below and available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/

The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html

Regards,

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


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Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2013-7
NRPM 4 (IPv4) Policy Cleanup

Date: 16 May 2014

AC's assessment of conformance with the Principles of Internet Number 
Resource Policy:

"ARIN-2013-7: "NRPM 4 (IPv4) Policy Cleanup" enables fair and impartial 
number resource administration by removing no-longer-relevant sections 
of the NRPM, and clarifying other sections. All of the remaining changes 
in this draft policy have proven uncontroversial thus far."

Problem Statement: Parts of NRPM 4 are irrelevant, especially after IPv4 
run-out, and should be cleaned up for clarity.

Policy statement:

Short list of changes with details explained below.

Remove section 4.1.1 Routability

Update section 4.1.5 Determination of resource requests

Remove section 4.1.7 RFC2050

Remove section 4.1.9 Returned IPv4 Addresses

Replace and retitle section 4.2.4.3 Subscriber Members Less Than One Year

Remove section 4.2.4.4. Subscriber Members After One Year

Details:

Remove section 4.1.1 Routability

It is no longer necessary for the NRPM to suggest where an organization 
obtains resources from.

Retitle and rewrite section (4.1.5 Determination of IP address 
allocation size)

Remove: "Determination of IP address allocation size is the 
responsibility of ARIN."

Replace with: (4.1.5 Resource request size) "Determining the validity of 
the amount of requested IP address resources is the responsibility of ARIN."

Rationale: Clarify that it is the validity of the request that is more 
the focus than the amount of resources requested. This does not prevent 
ARIN from suggesting that a smaller block would be justified where a 
larger one would not, but also does not suggest that it is ARIN's sole 
discretion to judge the size of the blocks needed.

Remove section 4.1.7 RFC2050

Now that RFC2050 has been replaced with RFC 7020 and ARIN-2013-4 RIR 
Principles has been adopted, this section is no longer needed.

Remove section 4.2.4.3 Subscriber Members Less Than One Year and 
4.2.4.4. Subscriber Members After One Year

Replace with: (4.2.4.3 Request size) "ISPs may request up to a 3-month 
supply of IPv4 addresses from ARIN, or a 24-month supply via 8.3 or 8.4 
transfer. Determination of the appropriate allocation to be issued is 
based on efficient utilization of space within this time frame, 
consistent with the principles in 4.2.1."

Rationale: Since ARIN received its last /8, by IANA implementing section 
10.4.2.2, this is now a distinction without a difference.

Timetable for implementation: Immediate