Hi,
On 2026-09-22 11:51, ARIN wrote:
This recommendation has been generally supported overwhelmingly by the
community, although some community members have expressed a preference to see
the elimination of all out-of-region restrictions. The Advisory Council found
that this view is not representative of the feedback overwhelmingly expressed
by the community and that it maintains key restrictions to prevent attempts to
bypass, manipulate, or exploit unintended gaps in this policy to limit
potential abuse, and that the policy is suitable to be advanced to recommended
status.
Is ARIN just going to ignore all the opposition to this policy proposal
on the PPML? Last time this policy was brought up on
https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2026-August/038480.html,
every reply has been in opposition due to the recent amendment to this
policy. I don't believe our opposition to this policy was appropriately
represented in this summary.
Specifically, the opposition centres around the way the policy was
amended to prohibit out-of-region use as a valid justification for all
available mechanisms for IPv4 resource acquisition from ARIN directly,
forcing everyone who needs out-of-region use to resort to section 8
transfers. This represents a dramatic change from the way ARIN currently
works and yet, it's effectively smuggled into this unrelated policy that
claims to "remove some perceived usage minimums" and reduce "harm to
smaller organizations".
This is problematic for many reasons:
1. The amendment to this draft policy has more impact than entire draft
policies. For example, the recommended draft policy ARIN-2025-8 will
be rendered entirely redundant by the recent amendment added late
into this draft policy, and ARIN-2025-8 would only prohibit
out-of-region use for NRPM section 4.10, not the waiting list.
2. It will be no longer possible for a certain class of resource
requests, namely those involving out-of-region use, to be serviced
by ARIN directly. It means that the full suite of ARIN's services
will no longer be accessible without a third-party willing to
transfer resources, which in practice requires paying such parties
large sums of money.
3. While the rationale of the policy claims to reduce harm to "smaller
organizations", it actually forces smaller organizations to buy IPv4
resources instead of using the waiting list. As organizations who
hold more than /20 in ARIN are not eligible for the waiting list,
that makes everyone who use the waiting list small organizations in
the grand scheme of things, and so the policy actually harms a lot
of "smaller" organizations.
Furthermore, since the draft policy was dramatically amended since the
previous ARIN meeting, I am not convinced that the "overwhelming"
support by the community applies to newly amended version, which has
been met with much criticism on the PPML.
*I find it very concerning that the ARIN Advisory Council ignored all
the opposition to this policy and acted as if the policy has
overwhelming support.*
Out-of-Region Usage Justification may not be used to receive IPv4 address space
from the ARIN Waiting List (4.1.8), the Micro-allocation Pool (4.4), or the
Dedicated IPv4 Block to Facilitate IPv6 Deployment (4.10).
Any organization already on the Waiting List at the time this policy is
implemented will be exempted and shall remain eligible under the rules in
effect at the time of its placement on the Waiting List.
This part, specifically, was the main crux of the opposition.
Best regards,
Quantum
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