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Policy Block: Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3: Change Section 9 Out Of Region Use Minimum Criteria#

ARIN 57 Public Policy and Members Meeting digest Program Adjacent pick 20–22 April 2026

Abstract Slides Recording

Gerry George (with Matthew Wilder), ARIN Advisory Council

Play the recording: Policy Block: Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3: Change Section 9 Out Of Region Use Minimum Criteria

  • Why: A live example of how a seemingly small threshold change (/22 → /24) can materially shift address-market behavior — the staff review itself says so.
  • What: Reduces the in-region IPv4 utilization required to justify out-of-region use from a /22 to a /24. Staff and Legal review flags the consequence explicitly: nothing in Section 9 caps out-of-region use, so a single in-region /24 could in practice unlock substantially larger blocks for deployment entirely outside the ARIN region; staff anticipate a significant increase in IPv4 waitlist volume and ticket workload.
  • How: A one-line NRPM text change, with the "real and substantial connection" requirement as the only remaining guard.
  • Where applicable: ARIN-region policy, but relevant to any multi-region operator's IPv4 planning: if adopted, it lowers the entry cost for using ARIN as the source of globally-deployed space, and community feedback notes it could push organizations with heavy out-of-region growth toward other RIRs.