Opposed as worded.
a. As mentioned by others, too vaguely and broadly worded.
i) What kind of proof would be meaningful?
ii) What constitutes legal presence.
iii) "majority of their technical infrastructure and customers" ????
In a virtualized infrastructure environment this doesn't reflect
current reality
no matter what it means.
b. Once assigned the resources are unfettered and free to move so it makes
little difference
unless ARIN wants to try and police this. (I seriously doubt they would.)
I understand their concern (LEO's) but I think we are a decade too late
to do much that would do anything meaningful here. Truth is, you can't be
sure where a destination phone number goes let alone an IP number.
Larry
ARIN <[email protected]> wrote:
Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6
Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors
On 20 June 2013 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-189
Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors" as a
Draft Policy.
Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2013_6.html
You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft Policy
2013-6 on the Public Policy Mailing List.
The AC will evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance of
this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource Policy
as stated in the PDP. Specifically, these principles are:
* Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
* Technically Sound
* Supported by the Community
The ARIN Policy Development Process (PDP) can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html
Regards,
Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
## * ##
Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6
Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors
Date: 25 June 2013
Problem Statement:
ARIN number resources should be used primarily in the ARIN region, for ARIN
region organizations. There is currently no explicit policy guiding staff in
this area, this proposal seeks to correct that.
Policy Statement:
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 ARIN region. This requirement applies to both
IPv4 and IPv6 address space.
Comments:
The proposal originator said, "Although we represent law enforcement, and
have brought forth this issue based upon our concerns and experience from a
law enforcement perspective, this is a problem in which the entire ARIN
community has a stake".
As reported at the last meeting in Barbados, ARIN staff is having difficulty
verifying organizations out-of-region. In many of the cases, particularly in
VPS (Virtual Private Service), the only information received on these
organizations by ARIN is a customer name and IP address. This information
cannot be properly verified by ARIN. Accuracy of registration data is
critical to not only law enforcement, but the greater ARIN community as it
relates to abuse contact and complaints. In fact, most issues facing law
enforcement are also shared by legitimate companies attempting, for instance,
to identify an organization that has hijacked their IP address space.
The expedited depletion of IPv4 address space in the ARIN region certainly
seems to negatively impact those organizations currently operating in the
region that may need to return to ARIN for additional IPv4 address space.
While law enforcementÂs concern is that criminal organizations outside of
the ARIN region can easily and quickly request large blocks of IPv4 address
space from ARIN, organizations that are not truly global organizations, but
specific national companies from the RIPE and APNIC regions, also have this
capability which is detrimental to true ARIN region organizations.
This policy proposal is re-enforcing practices the ARIN staff currently
employs to ensure that ARIN IP space is used for and by companies that are
legitimate and have a legitimate presence in the ARIN region. This policy
will assist in defining clear criteria that will be helpful to ARIN staff and
the community.
The primary role of RIRÂs is to manage and distribute public Internet
address space within their respective regions. The problem brought forth here
clearly undermines the current RIR model; if any organization can acquire IP
address space from any region, what then is the purpose of the geographical
breakdown of the five RIRs?
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