What changed
The verified record shows only procedural movement: an original version was recorded and the proposal was introduced on 2023-05-25. No substantive policy-text change, later revision, implementation, or operative outcome is established.
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/26 initial IPv4 allocation for IXPs
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-320
- RIR
- ARIN
- Official status
- Abandoned
- Normalized status
- Abandoned
- Introduced
- May 25, 2023
- Last source update
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Partial
Who actually shaped the debate?
UnknownTotal participants
UnknownDiscussion contributors
UnknownFormal actors
UnknownDiscussion messages
UnknownEffective participants
UnknownTop-five discussion share
UnknownPeople covering 50%
UnknownPeople covering 80%
BTW Analysis
BTW Analysis
What the debate was really about
The subject of the debate cannot be determined from the supplied evidence. No policy substance, messages, participant arguments, motivations, affected interests, or stance histories are present in the verified record.
Decision vs debate
Neither a substantive discussion nor a decision outcome is established. The captured dataset contains zero messages, discussion participants, formal actors, active days, stance participants, and stance transitions. The latest verified chronology event is introduction on 2023-05-25; no adoption, rejection, abandonment, recommendation, referral, or implementation event is supplied.
Participation concentration
Participation concentration is indeterminate, not low or evenly distributed. The top-message shares, HHI, effective participant count, and core counts are all zero because the captured record has zero messages and zero participants. There is therefore no populated participation base from which concentration or influence can be inferred.
Chokepoint analysis
No procedural, institutional, or participant chokepoint can be identified from the verified facts. The record contains no post-introduction stages, decision-maker activity, participant activity, or linkage showing where progress was controlled or stopped.
Uncertainties
- Zero recorded messages establish an empty captured discussion record, not that no public or private debate occurred in any venue.
- The substantive proposal text and any differences among versions are not supplied.
- No identities, arguments, support or opposition, stance histories, or participant influence are established.
- No final status, decision date, decision-maker, vote, rationale, implementation step, or operative outcome is supplied.
- The zero-valued concentration metrics are structurally non-informative because both message and participant counts are zero.
- The Doctrine package does not establish a complete official position on the merits or outcome of ARIN Prop-320.
Policy evolution
Debate timeline
Entities
Freshness: Stale
Source coverage is incomplete.
Sources and coverage
Official policy sources
Public discussion archives
- arin-ppml
- Earliest captured
- Sep 1, 1999
- Latest captured
- Sep 19, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 30,703
- Known gaps
- 0
- www.arin.net
- arin-arin-announce
- Earliest captured
- Aug 4, 2026
- Latest captured
- Sep 28, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 2,948
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-consult
- Earliest captured
- Aug 14, 2026
- Latest captured
- Sep 15, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 2,447
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-discuss
- Earliest captured
- Aug 2, 1999
- Latest captured
- Aug 21, 2007
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 716
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-issued
- Earliest captured
- Aug 2, 2026
- Latest captured
- Oct 7, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 5,872
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-ppml
- Earliest captured
- Aug 2, 2026
- Latest captured
- Sep 25, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 4,810
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-regrws
- Earliest captured
- Unknown
- Latest captured
- Unknown
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 0
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-rpki-pilot
- Earliest captured
- Jul 7, 2009
- Latest captured
- Jul 7, 2009
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Current
- Loading
- 0
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-suggestions
- Earliest captured
- Aug 26, 2026
- Latest captured
- Sep 4, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 1,086
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-tech-discuss
- Earliest captured
- Aug 13, 2026
- Latest captured
- Oct 5, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 1,639
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-arin-whoisrws
- Earliest captured
- Oct 9, 2009
- Latest captured
- Sep 6, 2010
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 0
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-clew
- Earliest captured
- May 6, 1999
- Latest captured
- Nov 7, 2002
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 56
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-dbwg
- Earliest captured
- Apr 22, 1999
- Latest captured
- Dec 30, 2004
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 443
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-iana-transition
- Earliest captured
- Oct 13, 2014
- Latest captured
- Jun 9, 2016
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 145
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-icp2_review
- Earliest captured
- Apr 14, 2025
- Latest captured
- Nov 10, 2025
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 0
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-naipr
- Earliest captured
- Jan 1, 1997
- Latest captured
- Nov 3, 1997
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 1,964
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-nrr-blueprint
- Earliest captured
- Oct 9, 2002
- Latest captured
- Oct 29, 2002
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Current
- Loading
- 0
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-policy
- Earliest captured
- Oct 12, 1999
- Latest captured
- Mar 26, 2003
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 100
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-rtma
- Earliest captured
- Apr 18, 2000
- Latest captured
- Dec 28, 2001
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 269
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-services-wg
- Earliest captured
- Apr 20, 2016
- Latest captured
- Jan 20, 2018
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 29
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-v6wg
- Earliest captured
- Nov 8, 2000
- Latest captured
- Mar 1, 2005
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 145
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-vwp
- Earliest captured
- Oct 18, 2000
- Latest captured
- Jul 10, 2001
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 232
- Known gaps
- 0
- arin-general-members
- Earliest captured
- Jun 3, 2022
- Latest captured
- Jun 25, 2026
- Last refresh
- Oct 7, 2026
- Coverage
- Source coverage is incomplete.
- Loading
- 129
- Known gaps
- 0
Coverage
Partial
Earliest captured: Jan 1, 1997
Latest captured: Oct 7, 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.