Latest Version: 23 April 2018

Advisory Council Statement of Conformance with Principles of Internet Number Resource Policy:

This recommended draft policy is technically sound, creating a fair and impartial number policy. The draft policy removes the Residential Market Area record keeping and publication requirement placed upon one segment of the ISP population for ARIN IPv4 allocations. Since this requirement does not apply to IPv4 transfers it is a legacy element of policy sustaining administrative overhead for a subset of the community. No concerns have been raised by the community and there has been demonstrable support since its initial proposal.

Problem Statement:

Current number policy requires some organizations to create reallocations or reassignments for residential subscribers.This requirement complicates record keeping for ISPs.There is limited value today for requiring these records be put into the ARIN database.

ARIN number policy for a long time has required ISPs to add a reallocation or reassignment record for each of their subscriber address blocks.This policy dates from the original cable allocations as a method to publicly show that a portion of a larger block has been put into use.

Since ARIN no longer has a free pool of IPv4 addresses and requirements for transfer are demonstrated without these records, this requirement is no longer needed.

Furthermore, this requirement complicates reallocation & reassignment entry into the ARIN database.3Removing this requirement could reduce the complexity required for accurately maintaining reallocation and/or reassignment records.

Policy statement:

Remove Section 4.2.3.7.3.1(Residential Market Area) from the NRPM

Comments:

Timetable for Implementation: Immediate

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ARIN STAFF & LEGAL ASSESSMENT

Draft Policy ARIN-2018-03

Remove Reallocation Requirements for Residential Market Assignments

https://arin.net/policy/proposals/2018_3.html

Date of Assessment: 2 July 2018

1. Summary (Staff Understanding):

This policy will eliminate the need for ISPs that have residential subscribers and have assigned address space to their access infrastructure to register these assignments with ARIN. Section 4.2.3.7.3.1 (Residential Market Area) will be removed in its entirety.

2. Comments:

A. ARIN Staff Comments

This policy will have negligible (if any) impact on RSD. This policy could be implemented as written.

B. ARIN General Counsel – Legal Assessment

The policy does not appear to create any material legal issue.

3. Resource Impact

Implementation of this policy would have minimal resource impact. It is estimated that implementation could occur within 3 months after ratification by the ARIN Board of Trustees. The following would be needed in order to implement:

* Update guidelines, documents and internal procedures

* Staff training

There is no engineering work required

4. Proposal/Draft Policy Text Assessed

Draft Policy ARIN-2018-03: Remove Reallocation Requirements for Residential Market Assignments

Version Date: 23 April 2018

Problem Statement:

Current number policy requires some organizations to create reallocations or reassignments for residential subscribers. This requirement complicates record keeping for ISPs. There is limited value today for requiring these records be put into the ARIN database.

ARIN number policy for a long time has required ISPs to add a reallocation or reassignment record for each of their subscriber address blocks. This policy dates from the original cable allocations as a method to publicly show that a portion of a larger block has been put into use.

Since ARIN no longer has a free pool of IPv4 addresses and requirements for transfer are demonstrated without these records, this requirement is no longer needed.

Furthermore, this requirement complicates reallocation & reassignment entry into the ARIN database.3 Removing this requirement could reduce the complexity required for accurately maintaining reallocation and/or reassignment records.

Policy statement:

Remove Section 4.2.3.7.3.1 (Residential Market Area) from the NRPM

Comments:

Timetable for Implementation: Immediate