Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-3: Alternative simplified criteria for justifying small IPv4 transfers

[ARIN]

On 16 February 2017 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) advanced the 
following Draft Policy to Recommended Draft Policy status:

ARIN-2016-3: Alternative simplified criteria for justifying small IPv4 
transfers

The text of the Recommended Draft Policy is below, and may also be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2016_3.html

You are encouraged to discuss all Recommended Draft Policies on PPML
prior to their presentation at the next ARIN Public Policy Meeting (PPM) 
or Public Policy Consultation (PPC). PPML and PPC discussions are 
invaluable to the AC when determining community consensus.

The 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,

Sean Hopkins
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-3: Alternative simplified criteria 
for justifying small IPv4 transfers

Version Date: 16 February 2017

AC's Statement of Conformance with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number 
Resource Policy

This proposal is technically sound and enables fair and impartial number 
policy by allowing transfers to specified recipients of blocks of a 
certain size to occur without a needs assessment performed by ARIN 
staff. The Staff and Legal Assessment raised no material issues, and 
there has been consistent support on both the mailing list and at the 
Dallas ARIN meeting for incorporating this mechanism into NRPM.

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.

This proposal allows organizations using 80% of their current space to 
double their current holdings via 8.3 or 8.4 specified transfers, up to 
a /16 equivalent.

Policy Statement:

Add a new section:

8.5.7 Alternative Additional IPv4 Address Block Criteria

In lieu of 8.5.5 and 8.5.6, organizations may qualify for additional 
IPv4 address blocks by demonstrating 80% utilization of their currently 
allocated space. If they do so, they qualify to receive one or more 
transfers up to the total size of their current ARIN IPv4 address 
holdings, with a maximum size of /16.

An organization may qualify via 8.5.7 for a total of a /16 equivalent in 
any 6 month period.