[171234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Enters Phase Four of the IPv4 Countdown Plan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Apr 23 10:47:59 2014
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <5357CFA8.10108@winterei.se>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:47:19 -0400
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If you didn't like it, you could have participated in the rule making where t=
hings like this were discussed at length, and voted on by the "community" (w=
hich turned out to be a very few people who gave a shit).
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TTFN,
patrick
On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:35, "Paul S." <contact@winterei.se> wrote:
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> Am I the only one who thinks this 'clench' is rather absurd especially rig=
ht after one company pretty much got 1/4th of all remaining address space wh=
en there's such an insane crunch looming?
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> Regardless of how large / important they are, that is.
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> If anything, this is just gonna make things more difficult for smaller com=
panies while larger ones roam free.
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>> On 4/23/2014 =E5=8D=88=E5=BE=8C 11:04, John Curran wrote:
>> NANOGers -
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>> ARIN's regional IPv4 free pool has reached the equivalent of one /8 of=
IPv4 space,
>> which means we are approaching runout of IPv4 space availability in th=
is region.
>> (See attached announcement from ARIN regarding occurrence of this even=
t)
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>> There are some changes to processing of requests as we enter this fina=
l phase,
>> and obviously service providers ought to be thinking about IPv6-based s=
ervices,
>> if not already in deployment.
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>> FYI,
>> /John
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>> John Curran
>> President and CEO
>> ARIN
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: ARIN <info@arin.net<mailto:info@arin.net>>
>> Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Enters Phase Four of the IPv4 Countdown Pla=
n
>> Date: April 23, 2014 at 10:00:20 AM GMT-3
>> To: arin-announce@arin.net<mailto:arin-announce@arin.net>
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>> ARIN is down to its final /8 of available space in its inventory and has m=
oved into Phase Four of its IPv4 Countdown Plan. All IPv4 requests are now s=
ubject to Countdown Plan processes, so please review the following details c=
arefully.
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>> All IPv4 requests will be processed on a "First in, First out" basis, and=
all requests of any size will be subject to team review, and requests for /=
15 or larger will require department director approval. ARIN's resource anal=
ysts will respond to tickets as they appear chronologically in the queue. Ea=
ch ticket response is treated as an individual transaction, so the completio=
n time of a single request may vary based on customer response times and the=
number of requests waiting in the queue. Because each correspondence will b=
e processed in sequence, it is possible that response times may exceed our u=
sual two-day turnaround.
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>> The hold period for returned, reclaimed, and revoked blocks is now reduce=
d to 60 days. All returned, revoked, and reclaimed IPv4 address space will g=
o back into the available pool when the 60 day period has expired. Staff wil=
l continue to check routing/filtering on space being reissued and will notif=
y recipients if there are issues.
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>> When a request is approved, the recipient will have 60 days to complete p=
ayment and/or an RSA. On the 61st day, the address space will be released ba=
ck to the available pool if payment and RSA are not completed.
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>> We encourage you to visit the IPv4 Countdown Phase Four page at:
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>> https://www.arin.net/resources/request/countdown_phase4.html
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>> ARIN may experience situations where it can no longer fulfill qualifying I=
Pv4 requests due to a lack of inventory of the desired block size. At that t=
ime, the requester may opt to accept the largest available block size or the=
y may ask to be placed on the Waiting List for Unmet Requests. Full details a=
bout this process are available at:
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>> https://www.arin.net/resources/request/waiting_list.html
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>> Please contact hostmaster@arin.net or our Help Desk +1.703.227.0660 if yo=
u have questions about these procedural changes.
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>> Regards,
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>> Leslie Nobile
>> Director, Registration Services
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>> _______________________________________________
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