Dear NANOG Community: ARIN has two proposals currently active that may have significant operational impact on *your network* as the IPv4 free pool depletes. 2008-2 "IPv4 Transfer Policy Proposal" which would allow the transfer of the right to use an IP block. 2008-5 "Dedicated IPv4 block to facilitate IPv6 deployment" would set aside some IPv4 space to be used only to assist in the transition to IPv6. Please see http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/proposal_archive.html for complete information. The place where discussions on proposed ARIN policies takes place is the ARIN Public Policy Mailing list <ppml@arin.net>. You're encouraged to join the list, and observe or participate as you see fit. Additionally, you're encouraged to attend the ARIN meeting which will be colocated with the NANOG meeting this fall in Los Angeles. The Advisory Council has the task of editing proposal 2008-2. There are many complex technical and political considerations that are related to this proposal, and the ARIN Advisory Council values the input of all community members and stakeholders. The ARIN Advisory Council will shortly be publishing a questionnaire on ppml@ to help gauge community sentiments on the aforementioned considerations. In order to keep a lid on ballot box stuffing activities, ppml subscribers will each be given a token to allow them to weigh in once on the survey. The survey is anonymous; no record of how or whether particular individuals responded will be preserved. If you'd like to be in on this survey, *now* is the time to subscribe to ppml@arin.net. Information on how to subscribe is located at http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html Thank you for your time and input, on behalf of the ARIN Advisory Council. --- Leo Bicknell, ARIN Advisory Council Chair -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/