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Dear Community Members,

This email presents a status update of policy proposals in the ARIN region following the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) meeting on 9 October 2015.

Two drafts moved to Last Call: --------------------------------

- Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2015-1: Modification to Criteria for IPv6 Initial End-User Assignments https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_1.html

- Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2015-4: Modify 8.2 section to better reflect how ARIN handles reorganizations https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_4.html

One draft adopted as a Recommended Draft Policy: ------------------------------

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-5: Out of region use https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_5.html

One draft was abandoned: ------------------------------

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-10: Minimum IPv6 Assignments https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_10.html

The ARIN AC continues to work on seven draft policies: -------------------------------------------------

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-2: Modify 8.4 (Inter-RIR Transfers to Specified Recipients) https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_2.html

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-3: Remove 30 day utilization requirement in end-user IPv4 policy https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_3.html

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-6: Transfers and Multi-national Networks https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_6.html

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-7: Simplified requirements for demonstrated need for IPv4 transfers https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_7.html

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-8: Reassignment records for IPv4 End-Users https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_8.html

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-9: Eliminating needs-based evaluation for Section 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 transfers of IPv4 netblocks https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_9.html

- Draft Policy ARIN-2015-11: Remove transfer language which only applied pre-exhaustion of IPv4 pool https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2015_11.html

An overview of ARIN´s policy proposals can be found here:

https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html

Find more information about the ARIN Policy Development Process here:

https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html

Kind regards,

George Odagi Internet Resource Analyst/Policy Support, APNIC e: godagi@apnic.net p: +61 7 3858 3191 f: +61 7 3858 3199 www.apnic.net _______________________________________________________ Join the conversation: https://blog.apnic.net/ _______________________________________________________