Meeting of the ARIN Advisory Council - 19 March 2026

Teleconference

ARIN AC Attendees:

• Kat Hunter, Chair (KH)
• Lily Botsyoe (LB)
• E. Marie Brierley (EMB)
• Doug Camin, Vice Chair (DC)
• Gerry George (GG)
• Elizabeth Goodson (EG)
• William Herrin (WH)
• Brian Jones (BJ)
• Kaitlyn Pellak (KP)
• Gus Reese (GR)
• Leif Sawyer (LS)
• Alicia Trotman (AT)
• Alison Wood (AW)
• Chris Woodfield (CW)

ARIN Staff:

• Michael Abejuela, General Counsel
• Eddie Diego, Policy Analyst
• Richard Jimmerson, COO
• Jennifer Lee, Deputy General Counsel
• Lisa Liedel, Director, RSD
• Therese Simcox, Sr. Executive Assistant/Scribe
• John Sweeting, CXO
• Joe Westover, Sr. Director CSX

Regrets:

• Matthew Wilder

Observer:

• Nancy Carter, Board Chair

1. Welcome and Roll Call.

The Chair called the meeting to order at 4:03 p.m. ET. The presence of a quorum was noted via roll call. The Chair acknowledged regrets received. She welcomed Board Chair, Nancy Carter to the call.

2. Agenda Review.

The Chair reviewed the agenda with the Council and called for any comments. There were no comments.

3. Approval of the Minutes.

(Exhibit A)

It was moved by AW, and seconded by LB, that:

“The ARIN Advisory Council approves the 19 February 2026 Minutes, as written.”

The motion carried with no objections.

4. Changes in Employment and Affiliation.

LS stated that he has been appointed to NANOG’s Elections Committee. KP announced that she is rejoining Amazon for employment.

5. Draft Policy ARIN-2025-1: Clarify ISP and LIR Definitions and References to Address Ambiguity in NRPM Text.

LS stated that he had posted the rewritten policy text to the Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) and one person responded in support. He noted the person’s comments and stated that the policy will be presented as-is at ARIN 57.

6. Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3: Change Section 9, Out of Region Use Minimum Criteria.

GG stated that he posted to the PPML to gain additional feedback. Discussions are going well and may head toward consensus. He noted that two issues were raised that were not serious and believed they will be worked out in the discussions at ARIN 57. The Chair noted the activity on the PPML and stated that it was nice to see it.

7. Draft Policy ARIN-2025-6: Fix Formula in 6.5.2.1c.

WH stated that a new staff and legal review was received this week on Monday. He stated that there was nothing notably different, but it is new and the policy will be presented at ARIN 57.

8. Draft Policy ARIN-2025-7: Make Policy in 6.5.8.2 Match the Examples.

LB stated that there was no update at this time. The policy will be presented at ARIN 57.

9. Draft Policy ARIN-2025-8: Reserve 4.10 Space for In-Region Use.

KP stated that she is waiting to present this policy at ARIN 57. She stated that she and EMB discussed the slides and noted that, based on PPML feedback, some people took issue with the ambiguity of the language.

10. ARIN-prop-349: Taking IP To Other Planets (TIPTOP).

AW stated that she is excited to work on this proposal and has been working with the author discussing the Policy Development Process (PDP) and how to write the problem statement within PDP criteria. One of the issues will be how to scale this to avoid fragmentation. This proposal text addresses issues before they become operational problems. She recognized there will be concerns with it and believed some of the issues will be the scope and “why ARIN?”. The author has reached out to the other RIRs as well, and thus far ARIN has been responsive. AW believed the problem statement is technically sound and has community interest and stated her intention to move it to draft policy status. She noted that this policy will need coordination across the RIRs.

It was moved by AW, and seconded by BJ, that:

“The ARIN Advisory Council accepts ‘ARIN-prop-349: Taking IP To Other Planets (TIPTOP)’ as a Draft Policy.”

The Chair called for discussion. WH asked AW if she was satisfied with problem statement as written and if it speaks to everything that it needs to address. AW stated that she has updated the AC Wiki with a new problem statement in accordance with the PDP. WH commented that the author has been involved in Internet routing research for decades and this idea is not something coming ‘out of left field’. He noted that this topic has a serious group of people behind it. AW agreed, stating it is a legitimate problem, and there is a need to get ahead of it. She noted that Google is looking at deploying their data centers into orbit in 2032.

The Council reviewed AW’s rewrite of the problem statement. LS noticed that AW added a new definition to 2.18 which conflicts with the one in 2025-1. He suggested that she number it as ‘2.xx’ to avoid confusion. AW agreed, stating that she would update it. She stated that she also added Section 4 referencing IPv4 and acknowledged that IPv6 would be preferred by most, however the author wanted to keep both in the statement.

DC stated that he supported the motion and recognized the need. He believed that the rewrite was significantly improved over the original statement. He stated that there is a lot there, but it is not important to decide if it is right at this time, noting that it needs to get in front of the community.

GG asked if there is still room for this item to be a table topic at ARIN 57. AW stated that she would love to have it as a table topic and to have the author and his group of people spearheading it. She noted that they have been making presentations elsewhere. She stated that the policy will be available for future in-person meetings for discussion. She will work with the author on hosting a table topic in the future. She stated that she has learned so much about routing, etc. in space, and that the author and his group are very well-versed.

The CXO reminded the AC that the President previously suggested that they request a staff and legal review as soon as AW feels it is appropriate. AW and the Chair acknowledged.

KP suggested having a table topic at ARIN 58 in the Fall as it will be a joint meeting with NANOG and the NANOG community would be very interested. AW stated that she will work with the author to coordinate it. KP asked for confirmation that this policy would involve reserving a pool of IPv4 addresses. AW confirmed that it does.

CW stated that he had been following discussions on the PPML and different parallel threads. He asked if when the original proposal required both pools, as he did not recall seeing IPv4 on the PPML. AW replied that the original text did not reference requiring both pools. She met with the author, and she rewrote the text a few times. This is the version that the author has approved, and his strong preference is to have both in the proposal.

KP stated that EMB left the call due to technical difficulties at 4:29 p.m. ET. The Chair moved forward with a roll call vote noting EMB may not return and was not on the call for all of the discussion and therefore may have had to abstain.

The motion carried with 13 in favor, via roll call vote.

AW stated that she wanted to request the staff and legal review. The Chair acknowledged her request.

11. ARIN AC Working Groups.

• Policy Experience Report Working Group (PER WG) Update. AW stated that they are working on the report and presenting four topics at ARIN 57. The Chair noted that two of the three WG’s are going to present at ARIN 57 for the first time.
• Number Resource Policy Manual Working Group (NRPM WG) Update. BJ stated that they have been talking about the future of IPv4 address allocations from ARIN and have a table topic to gain feedback from the community.
• Policy Engagement Working Group (PE WG) Update. AT stated that survey results have been received and this is a table topic. They have been discussing round two of the next survey and how the results will be presented to the community. They have a presentation and she anticipated that the community will want to see raw data and the results.

12. Any Other Business.

The chair called for any further business.

• ARIN 57 Reminders. The Chair provided the following reminders to the AC:
  • 20 Merch, 2026:
    • Text Freeze deadline
    • Presentation Decks due to Communications.
    • The Chair advised that all secondary policy shepherds to be ready to present in case any primary shepherd is unavailable.
    • Updated Head Shots & Bios due (if needed)
  • 3 April, 2026:
    • Table Topics due. The Chair noted that all three topics have been received from each WG, and that they are all good policy discussions.

13. Adjournment.

The Chair entertained a motion to adjourn at 4:36 p.m. ET. LB moved to adjourn, seconded by LS. The meeting adjourned with no objections.