On 20 August 2020, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) sent the following
Recommended Draft Policy to Last Call:
* ARIN-2019-10: Inter-RIR M&A
Feedback is encouraged during the Last Call period. All comments should
be provided to the Public Policy Mailing List. Last Call will expire on
9 September 2020 (accounting for one United States federal holiday).
The Recommended Draft Policy text is below and available at:
https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2019_10/
The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at:
https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/
Regards,
Sean Hopkins
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2019-10: Inter-RIR M&A
AC Assessment of Conformance with the Principles of Internet Number
Resource Policy:
This Recommended Draft Policy is technically sound and is fair and
impartial number policy. The intent of the draft policy is to clarify
handling of mergers and acquisition transfer processing between RIRs who
have compatible transfer policies. The proposed change would not be a
change from present practice but the policy change would make ARIN
implementation of the current policy clearer.
Problem Statement:
Merger, acquisition, or reorganization activity sometimes results in a
restructuring where company resources, the management of number
resources, or the use of number resources are concentrated outside the
ARIN service region. In this case it may be desirable for the current
legal entity or a legal entity that is a parent, child or sister to move
the servicing of the number resources to a different RIR.
Example:
Imagine a case where a global company has decided to discontinue service
in the ARIN service region (shuttering ARIN region offices laying off
ARIN region employees, and canceling ARIN region customers) and
repurpose the network resources and number resources in the rest of its
global footprint.
Imagine a case where a global company has decided to divest its service
in the ARIN region (selling all ARIN region offices, all ARIN region
network assets, all ARIN service region customers, all number resources
used in the ARIN (associated with previous noted sale of network and
customers), but retaining ARIN issued resources in use outside of the
ARIN service region.
Policy Statement:
In section 8.4, under “Conditions on source of the transfer”, replace
the third bullet point:
* Source entities within the ARIN region must not have received a
transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from ARIN
for the 12 months prior to the approval of a transfer request, unless
either the source or recipient entity owns or controls the other, or
both are under common ownership or control. This restriction does not
include 8.2 transfers.
with
* Source entities within the ARIN region must not have received a
transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from ARIN
for the 12 months prior to the approval of a transfer request, unless
either the source or recipient entity owns or controls the other, or
both are under common ownership or control. Number resources received as
the result of an 8.2 transfer are out of scope for the purposes of this
restriction.
AND
In section 8.4, under “Conditions on recipient of the transfer”, replace
the second bullet point:
* Recipients within the ARIN region must meet the transfer requirements
as defined in section 8.5.
with
* Specified Recipients within the ARIN region must meet the transfer
requirements as defined in section 8.5.
Timetable for Implementation: Immediate
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