The following Draft Policy has been revised:

* ARIN-2024-7: Addition of Definitions for General and Special Purpose IP 
Addresses

Revised text is below and can be found at:

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2024_7/

You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will evaluate 
the discussion 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/participate/policy/pdp/ 


Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/
 

Regards,

Eddie Diego
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


Draft Policy ARIN-2024-7: Addition of Definitions for General and Special 
Purpose IP Addresses

Problem Statement:

The Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) often treats general purpose and 
special purpose IP addresses differently. Unfortunately, we don’t have a 
convenient to use term to describe these categories, so policy often becomes 
either excessively wordy or does not correctly capture the intent. Examples of 
this can be found in section 4.1.8 of the NRPM, and in (currently pending) 
Draft Policies ARIN-2023-8 (where the fact that 4.4 and 4.10 space isn’t 
counted against an organization is repeated numerous times) and ARIN-2022-12 
(where the text does not exclude 4.4 and 4.10 allocations from being counted 
against an organization, but it is the intent that those allocations should be 
ignored). Additionally, temporary allocations under section 11 are rarely 
carved out, even when 4.4 and 4.10 are, even though it is likely the policy’s 
intent that these too should be ignored.

Policy Statement:

Add the following definition to Section 2

2.18 Reserved IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses
Addresses that are reserved by ARIN for specific purposes including, but not 
limited to; maintaining critical infrastructure, facilitating IPv6 deployment, 
or temporary experimental purposes as approved by ARIN.

Timetable for Implementation: Immediate.



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