LAST CALL for Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-4: Transfers for new entrants

[ARIN]

The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 21 October 2016 and decided to 
send Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-4: Transfers for new entrants to 
Last Call:

The AC provided the following statement to the community:

This proposal is technically sound and enables fair and impartial number 
policy. There is support for this policy in the ARIN community as 
expressed at ARIN 38 and on PPML. There has been no opposition stated to 
2016-4. At the ARIN AC meeting held on 10/21/2016, it was agreed that in 
the "Anything else" section of Recommended Draft Policy 2016-4 stating 
that 'The text in 4.2.2 “for specified transfers, or three months 
otherwise” and the text in 4.3.3 “for specified transfers, or 12 months 
otherwise” should be stricken if ARIN-prop-227 is adopted' should be 
followed by ARIN staff as an instruction from the AC, presuming that 
2016-2 (which is what ARIN-prop-227 has become) continues to move 
forward after last call.

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 9 November 2016. After Last Call, the AC will conduct their 
Last Call review.

The full 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)




ARIN-2016-4: Transfers for new entrants

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

The proposal is technically sound and enables fair and impartial number 
policy by ensuring that new organizations have a mechanism to access at 
least a minimum amount of resources from the transfer market. The staff 
and legal review (as updated 8/19/2016) is non-controversial. There is 
support and no concerns have been raised by the community regarding the 
proposal on PPML or elsewhere.

Problem Statement:

New organizations without existing IPv4 space may not always be able to 
qualify for an initial allocation under NRPM 4.2, particularly if they 
are categorized as ISPs and subject to 4.2.2.1.1. Use of /24. Now that 
ARIN’s free pool is exhausted, 4.2.1.6. Immediate need states that 
“These cases are exceptional”, but that is no longer correct. End user 
organizations requiring less a /24 of address space may also be unable 
to acquire space from their upstream ISP, and may instead need to 
receive a /24 from ARIN via transfer.

Policy statement:

Replace Section 4.2.2 with:

4.2.2. Initial allocation to ISPs

“All ISP organizations without direct assignments or allocations from 
ARIN qualify for an initial allocation of up to a /21, subject to ARIN’s 
minimum allocation size. Organizations may qualify for a larger initial 
allocation by documenting how the requested allocation will be utilized 
within 24 months for specified transfers, or three months otherwise. 
ISPs renumbering out of their previous address space will be given a 
reasonable amount of time to do so, and any blocks they are returning 
will not count against their utilization.

Replace Section 4.3.2 to read:

4.3.2 Minimum assignment

ARIN’s minimum assignment for end-user organizations is a /24.

End-user organizations without direct assignments or allocations from 
ARIN qualify for an initial assignment of ARIN’s minimum assignment size.

Replace the first two sentences of Section 4.3.3. Utilization rate to read:

Organizations may qualify for a larger initial allocation by providing 
appropriate details to verify their 24-month growth projection for 
specified transfers, or 12 months otherwise.

Resulting new section 4.3.3 will be:

Organizations may qualify for a larger initial allocation, by providing 
appropriate details to verify their 24-month growth projection for 
specified transfers, or 12 months otherwise.

The basic criterion that must be met is a 50% utilization rate within 
one year.

A greater utilization rate may be required based on individual network 
requirements.

Comments:

Timetable for implementation: Immediate

Anything else

The text in 4.2.2 “for specified transfers, or three months otherwise” 
and the text in 4.3.3 “for specified transfers, or 12 months otherwise” 
should be stricken if ARIN-prop-227 is adopted.