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

[ARIN]

On 19 July 2018, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) advanced the following 
Draft Policy to Recommended Draft Policy status:

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

The text of the Recommended Draft Policy is below, and may also be found at:

https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2018_3.html

You are encouraged to discuss all Recommended Draft Policies on PPML
prior to their presentation at the next ARIN 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-2018-3: Remove Reallocation Requirements 
for Residential Market Assignments

Advisory Council Statement of Conformance with Principles of Internet 
Number Resource Policy:

This recommended draft policy is technically sound, creating a fair and 
impartial number policy. The draft policy removes the Residential Market 
Area record keeping and publication requirement placed upon one segment 
of the ISP population for ARIN IPv4 allocations. Since this requirement 
does not apply to IPv4 transfers it is a legacy element of policy 
sustaining administrative overhead for a subset of the community.  No 
concerns have been raised by the community  and there has been 
demonstrable support since its initial proposal.

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