Hi all,

On behalf of my organization, I would also like to voice support for this 
policy. As much as I find some arguments against the policy compelling, namely 
that nobody is guaranteed to receive any space within any kind of time frame 
when using the waiting list, I think it’s pretty clear to the community that an 
error was made in moving the target out from underneath companies who had 
already been patiently waiting on the list in accordance with the requirements 
at the time they were added. 

As far as implementation details, I absolutely believe that two of the most 
important measures to prevent fraud were the introduction of the /22 limit and 
the 60 month waiting period to transfer wait list issued space. Although we may 
have erred in retroactively removing orgs based on the new /20 limit for total 
space held, I think that the grandfathered orgs should be subject to the same 
treatment as the orgs who remained on the list after 2019-16 was implemented. 
Otherwise, I believe we would once again be creating a situation of unequal 
treatment for the orgs who had to reduce their request size to a /22 after the 
implementation of 2019-16, and were subject to the new 60 month waiting period 
upon issuance.

With regards to the proposed /18 limit, I do find that there is little to 
support this arbitrary boundary when the original waitlist policy specified no 
such condition. Since we are remedying a one time error, I think that we 
shouldn’t be too particular about which of the aggrieved parties are allowed to 
make use of that remedy. Although I personally believe that most organizations 
holding greater than a /18 could probably afford to obtain space in other ways, 
I think the duty of ARIN to be fair and impartial requires us to take a bit 
broader view. Asking an organization to take a smaller allocation, or wait 
longer to transfer allocated space, seems to me to be a much less onerous 
retroactive application of new policy than drawing any boundary which results 
in complete ineligibility for some.

Isaiah Olson
Olson Tech, LLC 
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