> -----Original Message-----

> Is requiring accurate documentation in the registry of what
> jurisdiction addresses are use in a reasonable start to such detente?

[Milton L Mueller] This is not what 2013-6 proposes to do. 
 
> I don't think it is practical to limit where addresses are used, but I
> don't think it is unreasonable to require that where they are used be
> documented.  

[Milton L Mueller] Again, this is not what 2013-6 proposes to do. It's very 
important that we not get confused about that. 
Here is what it proposes: 

"...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."

So, they are not proposing to document where numbers are used, they are 
proposing to regulate who can get numbers based on the "legal presence" of the 
applicant and the geographical location of technical infrastructure and 
customers. It is, in fact, a crude and not very well thought out attempt to 
jurisdictionalize the internet.

This proposal is not "détente" but a demand for surrender. It would 
fundamentally alter criteria for number resource allocation in order to give 
LEAs minimal gains in efficiency (possibly none). For those minimal, possibly 
nonexistent gains for a mission unrelated to ARIN's it would fundamentally 
subvert the governance model. But it doesn't even accomplish its stated goal, 
because ARIN is regional, not national. The only way for the stated LEA 
concerns to be fully met is to abolish RIRs and allocated exclusively by NIRs. 
And of course that wouldn't work because many internet services are, and should 
remain, both transnational and trans-regional. 

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