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ARIN-prop-2: Use of HD-Ratio for IPv4 Allocations

Start here for the proposal-by-proposal record: what changed, why it mattered, who argued for what, how positions evolved, what was decided, and where the evidence still has gaps.

Source facts

Policy ID
ARIN-prop-2
RIR
ARIN
Official status
Abandoned
Normalized status
Abandoned
Introduced
Feb 19, 2004
Last source update
Oct 4, 2026
Coverage
Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

2Total participants
2Discussion contributors
UnknownFormal actors
2Discussion messages
2Effective participants
100%Top-five discussion share
1People covering 50%
2People covering 80%

BTW Analysis

BTW Analysis

What changed

No policy change can be identified from the supplied verified facts because the policy chronology, proposal text, revisions, and implementation status are absent.

What the debate was really about

The subject of the debate cannot be determined. The supplied record contains no messages, participant stance timelines, or documented supporting, opposing, unresolved, or minority arguments.

Decision vs debate

Neither a discussion process nor a formal decision is established. The record has zero messages, zero discussion participants, zero formal actors, zero active days, and no verified decision, decision-maker, decision rule, date, or disposition.

Participation concentration

The dataset contains no recorded participation: zero messages and zero participants. Consequently, the zero top-participant shares, HHI, effective-participant count, and core-participant counts cannot be interpreted as evidence of broad, equal, dispersed, or concentrated participation.

Chokepoint analysis

No procedural, institutional, or participant chokepoint can be identified because no proposal sequence, deliberative stages, formal actors, stance activity, or decision path is supplied. The principal analytical limitation is the empty observation set, whose completeness is not established.

Uncertainties

  • It is uncertain whether the zero-valued metrics reflect an absence of debate or an empty or incomplete source collection.
  • The proposal text, revisions, chronology, relevant dates, arguments, decision-maker, decision rule, final disposition, and implementation status are not supplied.
  • No inference about consensus, legitimacy, representativeness, power distribution, or policy impact can be made from an empty participation denominator.
  • The Doctrine package does not establish a complete official position for ARIN/PROP-2 and cannot substitute for missing verified policy or decision facts.

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

  1. Introduced

    Introduced

    Source facts ↗

Entities

Freshness: Stale
  1. McBurnett, Jim · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityJul 23, 2003
    Last activityJul 23, 2003
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies5
  2. Unknown · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityJul 22, 2003
    Last activityJul 22, 2003
    First explicit stanceOppose
    Latest explicit stanceOppose
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies1

Sources and coverage

Official policy sources

Public discussion archives

  • arin-ppml
    Earliest captured
    Sep 1, 1999
    Latest captured
    Sep 19, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    30,603
    Known gaps
    0
  • www.arin.net
  • arin-arin-announce
    Earliest captured
    Aug 4, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 28, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    2,923
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-consult
    Earliest captured
    Aug 14, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 15, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    2,519
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-discuss
    Earliest captured
    Aug 2, 1999
    Latest captured
    Aug 21, 2007
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    716
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-issued
    Earliest captured
    Aug 2, 2026
    Latest captured
    Oct 4, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    5,516
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    0
  • arin-arin-ppml
    Earliest captured
    Aug 2, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 25, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    4,634
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    0
  • arin-arin-regrws
    Earliest captured
    Unknown
    Latest captured
    Unknown
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    0
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    0
  • arin-arin-rpki-pilot
    Earliest captured
    Jul 7, 2009
    Latest captured
    Jul 7, 2009
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Current
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    0
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-suggestions
    Earliest captured
    Aug 26, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 4, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
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    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    1,107
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    0
  • arin-arin-tech-discuss
    Earliest captured
    Aug 13, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 30, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    1,567
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  • arin-arin-whoisrws
    Earliest captured
    Oct 9, 2009
    Latest captured
    Sep 6, 2010
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    0
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    0
  • arin-clew
    Earliest captured
    May 6, 1999
    Latest captured
    Nov 7, 2002
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    56
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-dbwg
    Earliest captured
    Apr 22, 1999
    Latest captured
    Dec 30, 2004
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    443
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-iana-transition
    Earliest captured
    Oct 13, 2014
    Latest captured
    Jun 9, 2016
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    145
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-icp2_review
    Earliest captured
    Apr 14, 2025
    Latest captured
    Nov 10, 2025
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    0
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-naipr
    Earliest captured
    Jan 1, 1997
    Latest captured
    Nov 3, 1997
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    1,964
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-nrr-blueprint
    Earliest captured
    Oct 9, 2002
    Latest captured
    Oct 29, 2002
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Current
    Loading
    0
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-policy
    Earliest captured
    Oct 12, 1999
    Latest captured
    Mar 26, 2003
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    100
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-rtma
    Earliest captured
    Apr 18, 2000
    Latest captured
    Dec 28, 2001
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    269
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-services-wg
    Earliest captured
    Apr 20, 2016
    Latest captured
    Jan 20, 2018
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    29
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-v6wg
    Earliest captured
    Nov 8, 2000
    Latest captured
    Mar 1, 2005
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    145
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-vwp
    Earliest captured
    Oct 18, 2000
    Latest captured
    Jul 10, 2001
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    232
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-general-members
    Earliest captured
    Jun 3, 2022
    Latest captured
    Jun 25, 2026
    Last refresh
    Oct 5, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    129
    Known gaps
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Coverage

Partial
Earliest captured: Jan 1, 1997
Latest captured: Oct 5, 2026

Freshness

Freshness: Stale · Last refresh:

Known gaps

  • www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-ppml: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-announce: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-consult: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-discuss: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-issued: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-ppml: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-regrws: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-suggestions: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-tech-discuss: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-clew: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-dbwg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-iana-transition: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-naipr: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-policy: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-rtma: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-services-wg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-v6wg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-vwp: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-general-members: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.