The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 21 October 2016 and decided to send Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-1: Reserved Pool Transfer Policy to Last Call:

The AC provided the following statement to the community:

This proposal is technically sound and enables fair and impartial number policy by ensuring that the number resources are used in accordance with the terms under which they were granted. There is significant support for this change within the Internet community. Re: Merge into 2016-5. The new text "Address resources from a reserved pool (including those designated in Section 4.4 and 4.10) are not eligible for transfer." should be added to the revised 2016-5 sections 8.3 & 8.4 "Conditions on source of the transfer:”.

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)



Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2016-1: Reserved Pool Transfer Policy

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

This proposal enables fair and impartial number resource administration by ensuring that IPv4 resources, which are specially designated for critical infrastructure and IPv6 transition, are readily available for many years into the future. This is done by ensuring the resources remain in their originally designated pool rather than being moved into the general IPv4 address pool via a transfer. This proposal is technically sound and is supported by the community.

Problem Statement:

Section 8 of the current NRPM does not distinguish between the transfer of blocks from addresses that have been reserved for specific uses and other addresses that can be transferred. In sections 4.4 and 4.10 there are specific address blocks set aside, based on the need for critical infrastructure and IPv6 transitions. Two issues arise if transfers of reserved address space occur under the current language of section 8. First, if transfers of 4.4 or 4.10 space occur under the current policy requirements set forth in sections 8.3 and 8.4, the recipients will be able to acquire space that was originally reserved for a specific purpose without ever providing evidence that they will be using the space for either critical infrastructure or IPv6 transition. Second, if we allow an allocation or assignment from the block reserved in section 4.10 to be transferred out of the region, it would complicate the single aggregate from which providers are being asked to allow in block sizes smaller than a /24. This policy would limit the transfer of addresses from reserved pools.

Policy statement:

Add to Section 8.3 and Section 8.4 under the "Conditions on source of the transfer:"

Address resources from a reserved pool (including those designated in Section 4.4 and 4.10) are not eligible for transfer.

Timetable for implementation: Immediate
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