Draft Policy ARIN-2015-7: Simplified requirements for demonstrated need for IPv4 transfers

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Draft Policy ARIN-2015-7
Simplified requirements for demonstrated need for IPv4 transfers

On 18 June 2015 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-221 
Simplified requirements for demonstrated need for IPv4 transfers" as a 
Draft Policy.

Draft Policy ARIN-2015-7 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_7.html

You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft
Policy 2015-7 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-2015-7
Simplified requirements for demonstrated need for IPv4 transfers

Date: 23 June 2015

Problem statement:

ARIN transfer policy currently inherits all its demonstrated need 
requirements for IPv4 transfers from NRPM sections 4. Because that 
section was written primarily to deal with free pool allocations, it is 
much more complicated than is really necessary for transfers. In 
practice, ARIN staff applies much more lenient needs assessment to 
section 8 IPv4 transfer requests than to free pool requests, as 24-month 
needs are much more difficult to assess to the same level of detail.

This proposal seeks to dramatically simplify the needs assessment 
process for 8.3 transfers, while still allowing organizations with 
corner-case requirements to apply under existing policy if necessary.

Policy statement:

8.1.x Simplified requirements for demonstrated need for IPv4 transfers

IPv4 transfer recipients must demonstrate (and an officer of the 
requesting organization must attest) that they will use at least 50% of 
their aggregate IPv4 addresses (including the requested resources) on an 
operational network within 24 months.

Organizations that do not meet the simplified criteria above may instead 
demonstrate the need for number resources using the criteria in section 
4 of the NRPM.

Comments:

a. Timetable for implementation: Immediate

b. Anything else