Advisory Council Meeting Results - October 2014

[ARIN]

> The AC abandoned several Draft Policies. Anyone dissatisfied with these
> decisions may initiate a petition. The deadline to begin a petition will
> be five business days after the AC's draft meeting minutes are
> published. For more information on starting and participating in
> petitions, see PDP Petitions at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp_petitions.html

The minutes from the ARIN Advisory Council's October 10 meeting have
been published:
https://www.arin.net/about_us/ac/ac2014_1010.html

The petition deadline is 29 October 2014.

For more information on starting and participating in petitions, see PDP
Petitions at: https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp_petitions.html

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

Draft Policy and Proposal texts are available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html

Regards,

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


On 10/15/14 3:00 PM, ARIN wrote:
> In accordance with the ARIN Policy Development Process (PDP), the ARIN
> Advisory Council (AC) met on 10 October 2014.
>
> The AC moved the following to last call:
>
> Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-9: Resolve Conflict Between RSA and
> 8.2 Utilization Requirements
>
> The AC abandoned the following:
>
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-15: Allow Inter-RIR ASN Transfers
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-16: Section 4.10 Austerity Policy Update
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-18: Simplifying Minimum Allocations and
> Assignments
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-20: Transfer Policy Slow Start and Simplified
> Needs Verification
>
> The AC provided the following explanations for abandoning the Draft
> Policies.
>
> Regarding 2014-15:
>
> "The following substantive issues were noted by the AC in considering
> this draft policy.
>
> -There is outstanding technical work which must be done prior to
> implementation which would allow RPKI functionality for inter-RIR ASN
> transfers
> -There would be a significant time delay on the full implementation of
> this policy
> -The implementation of 2014-15 requires agreement from all 5 RIRs on a
> method to implement inter-RIR ASN transfers
> -Cleanup of the 2-byte ASN registry at IANA is required before this
> policy could be fully implemented
> -There is significant work which must be done to implement this policy
> amongst all 5 RIRs with limited perceived overall benefit to the
> community, especially when weighed against other competing priorities
>
> While the AC believes that the limited corner case illuminated during
> discussion of this draft policy is valid, it was noted that a valid
> workaround, obtaining a new ASN in an appropriate RIR, is available for
> all members of the community."
>
> Regarding 2014-16:
>
> "The Advisory Council decided to abandon 2014-16: Section 4.10 Austerity
> policy update due to a general lack of support. The feedback at ARIN 34,
> and on PPML clarified there is a desire to retain the existing
> transition mechanism as it is. It also became clear there was a lack of
> agreement on how to supply the austerity pool."
>
> Regarding 2014-18:
>
> "Comments on the mailing list and at the microphone were generally
> negative and there appears to be community consensus against this
> proposal.  Points raised included:
>
> * Removal of needs-basis for a narrowly constructed set of constituents
> seemed like a special interest pet project
>
> * There are other proposals in process for needs-basis adjustment that
> appear to have more support.
>
> * A recent adjustment to allocation policy makes the minimum allocation
> prefix length a /24 across the board.  This has the side effect of opening
> up direct allocations and assignments from ARIN to organizations which
> were previously regarded as too small.
>
> * Concern was raised over the "this section shall be controlling"
> verbiage."
>
> Regarding 2014-20:
>
> "While the overall policy did not receive support from the community, a
> number of specific issues were raised that the Advisory Council believes
> could be addressed in more focused policies. We recommend that the
> authors investigate individual policies specific to rapid growth in
> transfer requests and alternatives to the 24 month calculation."
>
>
> The AC abandoned several Draft Policies. Anyone dissatisfied with these
> decisions may initiate a petition. The deadline to begin a petition will
> be five business days after the AC's draft meeting minutes are
> published. For more information on starting and participating in
> petitions, see PDP Petitions at:
> https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp_petitions.html
>
> The AC is continuing to work on the following:
>
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-1: Out of Region Use
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-6: Remove 7.1 [Maintaining IN-ADDRs]
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14: Removing Needs Test from Small IPv4 Transfers
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-17: Change Utilization Requirements from
> last-allocation to total-aggregate
>    Draft Policy ARIN-2014-19: New MDN Allocation Based on Past Utilization
>
> Draft Policy and 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)