Policy Block 1: Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2025-3#
ARIN 58 Public Policy and Members Meeting digest Program Adjacent pick 22–23 October 2026
Gerry George (Advisory Council; co-drafted with Matthew Wilder)
- Why: The out-of-region-use rules govern when ARIN space can be deployed outside the ARIN region — a real constraint for anycast or multinational deployments rooted in ARIN allocations.
- What: Lowers the in-region IPv4 utilization threshold to justify out-of-region use from /22 to /24. Staff review flags the sharp edge: with no maximum on out-of-region requests, a single in-region /24 could unlock substantially larger blocks deployed entirely outside the region. An amendment also bars using out-of-region justification for waitlist, micro-allocation (4.4), and IPv6-deployment (4.10) space — which drew community objection as an unrelated, precedent-setting restriction on waitlist eligibility by intended use.
- How: Single-text threshold change with carve-outs; implementable in 3 months.
- Where applicable: ARIN-region resource holders with any non-ARIN-region deployment; the community fight over the waitlist restriction is the part worth watching.