On 25 Jun 2013 [email protected] wrote: > Hello - > > I fully support this proposal text. > > Quote: > > "Any entity (individual or organization) requesting ARIN issued IP blocks > must provide ARIN with proof of an established legal presence in the > designated ARIN region, and have a majority of their technical infrastructure > and customers in the designated AR > IN region. This requirement applies to both IPv4 and IPv6 address space." > > The internet engineering community purposely designed the RIR system to be > regional. Different regions have different needs, and grow at different > rates. Current NRPM text is deficient in the arena of defining who can, and > cannot, request number resource > s from the Registry. Importantly, staff have (on multiple occasions) > presented the ARIN community with the challenge of dealing with requestors > who are trying to "game" the RIR system by obtaining space from ARIN when the > customers are primarily (and eve > n exclusively) outside the ARIN region. The proposed policy text neatly > offers staff a good tool to overcome those challenges. > > The proposed policy text is elegant and operational for a few reasons: > > 1) If a majority of an organization's customers is outside the ARIN > region, there organization should be subject to the RIR in which their > majority resides.
What if there is no region in which the majority resides? > If that majority is in APAC or EMEA, and those regions are out of space, > that challenge is out-of-scope of ARIN policy. (It is the purview of that > region's registry and its policy making community.) > > 2) It does not impede on the ability of global backbone operators to > request space from ARIN, so long as the ARIN region is the largest > consumer of devices and addresses. This may not be true. "Largest consumer" does not equal "majority". There may well be companies and organizations which do not have a majority of their customers or infrastructure in *any* one region. > > 3) The use of the term "majority" presents no functional challenges to > either requestors or staff. Merriam-Webster has a definition of the word > majority stating, "the greater quantity or share". That's only a partial definition. My dictionary defines majority as "the greater part or larger number; more than half of a total." The "more than half" part is essential to the definition. Change "majority" to "plurality" and I have no other objection. > > I have only one recommended edit to the text. I recommend replacing "IP > blocks" with "number resources", so that the text precisely captures the > activities of the Registry. Good with that. > > Yours, > David Huberman -- John Santos Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc. 781-861-0670 ext 539 _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
