Draft Policy ARIN-2018-3: Remove Reallocation Requirements for Residential Market Assignments

[ARIN]

On 18 April 2018 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-253: 
Remove Reallocation Requirements for Residential Market Assignments" as 
a Draft Policy.

Draft Policy ARIN-2018-3 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2018_3.html

You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. 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 Policy Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these 
principles are:

  * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
  * Technically Sound
  * Supported by the Community

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)



Draft Policy ARIN-2018-3: Remove Reallocation Requirements for 
Residential Market Assignments

Problem Statement:

Current number policy requires some organizations to create 
reallocations or reassignments for residential subscribers.  This 
requirement complicates record keeping for ISPs.  There is limited value 
today for requiring these records be put into the ARIN database.

ARIN number policy for a long time has required ISPs to add a 
reallocation or reassignment record for each of their subscriber address 
blocks.  This policy dates from the original cable allocations as a 
method to publicly show that a portion of a larger block has been put 
into use.

Since ARIN no longer has a free pool of IPv4 addresses and requirements 
for transfer are demonstrated without these records, this requirement is 
no longer needed.

Furthermore, this requirement complicates reallocation & reassignment 
entry into the ARIN database.3  Removing this requirement could reduce 
the complexity required for accurately maintaining reallocation and/or 
reassignment records.

Policy statement:

Remove Section 4.2.3.7.3.1 (Residential Market Area) from the NRPM

Comments:

Timetable for implementation: immediate