On Sep 16, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > Staff has been tightening up their interpretation of this in recent years. In > the past, it used to be relatively easy for any multinational organization > headquartered in the ARIN region to get address space for their world-wide > network. Today, it is difficult to get ARIN to approve anything not justified > by in-region operations.
It is correct that ARIN's existing practice requires the requestor to have a legal presence in the ARIN region and to operate a network in region. > I think the actual reality is somewhere in between these two extreme views of > what was said. I believe ARIN is getting a lot of "in-region" requests that > are from providers using VPNs to connect out-of-region customers and ARIN > lacks guidance on how to treat these requests as to whether to consider them > in-region or out-of-region. If number resources are being requested for infrastructure in the region (and based on customers within the region) then it is clear that issuing space meets the goal to "manage and distribute public Internet address space within their respective regions" The Policy Experience Report noted that it is not quite as clear when a request comes for issuance of address space for infrastructure in the region but it is in order to serve customers outside the region. This could be in keeping with community expectation, or could be contrary to same; it is not clear that there was any discussion of that potential situation during policy development. It is also worth noting that we presently approve these requests, if there is a legal presence and network infrastructure in region. FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN _______________________________________________ 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.
