Summary

  • At ARIN 57 in April, Evghenii Kosatii asked whether ARIN Academy could add a course on the Policy Development Process. He later appeared on ARIN’s 2026 Advisory Council slate.
  • His questionnaire points to practical IPv4 transfer rules, IPv6 adoption and policy language that organizations with different levels of technical and administrative experience can use.

A course request with a council seat behind it

Evghenii Kosatii asked at ARIN’s April 2026 meeting whether the Academy planned to add courses, saying “something like a PDP course would be very helpful, I would think.” ARIN President John Curran replied that ARIN wanted suggested outlines: staff did not yet know which courses the community wanted.

It was an ordinary microphone question with an unusually direct policy point. The Number Resource Policy Manual determines how ARIN processes requests. Learning how that manual changes is part of learning how the registry works. Kosatii asked for a route into that process that a new participant could actually follow.

ARIN’s records show a progression through that route. The registry named Kosatii among the ARIN 52 Fellows in 2023. In January 2025, it listed him as a former Fellow on the ARIN 55 Fellowship Selection Committee. That committee reviewed applications and selected Fellows for the meeting. In 2026, Kosatii filed as a candidate for the Advisory Council.

The stages have different jobs. A Fellowship introduces people to the policy process. A selection committee helps choose who gets that introduction. The Advisory Council is elected: its 15 members advise ARIN’s Board of Trustees on number-resource policy and forward consensus-based proposals for ratification. Each role offers a different kind of participation. Only the ballot confers an elected seat.

Kosatii’s candidate questionnaire gives that seat a practical agenda. He says ARIN should pay attention to how IPv4 transfer policy works in practice, IPv6 adoption, and policy wording that organizations with different technical and administrative experience can understand. He describes more than a decade working with ARIN policy and RIR processes; that experience is his account in the questionnaire. The policy priorities are also his stated priorities, not decisions already adopted by ARIN.

The list is concrete enough to test. A transfer rule has to be legible to the teams that prepare and review requests. IPv6 policy has to meet organizations at different points in deployment. Clear language gives a small operations team the same starting point as a large one: the text ARIN will apply. That is the work behind the phrase “practical policy.”

There were seven candidates for five Advisory Council seats in ARIN’s 2026 slate. Voting ran from 22 to 30 October. Each eligible General Member organization designates one Voting Contact per Org ID to cast its ballot. The ballot stays with that designated contact; meeting attendance, committee service and endorsements do not carry it.

That distinction is the story of Kosatii’s candidacy. His Fellowship and volunteer work document participation; the member ballot supplies the mandate. The public ARIN schedule set 6 November as the latest date for announcing results. That result will establish whether voters gave him a seat. The next useful record would be an AC docket or recommendation showing whether his stated priorities become council work.

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