John, What if Acme Hosting, Inc., located in the Silicon Valley, found a niche offering virtualized servers for Asian customers who want to have their Internet-based services hosted more closely to the North American market.
Acme Hosting and their infrastructure are clearly in the U.S., but their customers are not in the ARIN region. Does the policy, as currently written, preclude Acme Hosting from requesting more address space as their Asian customer base grows? Frank -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Curran Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 10:38 AM To: William Herrin Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6: Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors - Revised <snip> Under the policy change proposed by 2013-6, we would only consider customers within the ARIN service region for this purpose, and would provide an allocation which they could justify based on that in-region customer demand. The proposed policy change makes clear that customers must be in-region to be considered. (The present policy does not have such a constraint, hence the approval of recent requests where the vast majority of customers are known to be outside the ARIN region.) We don't consider virtual "technical infrastructure" for assessing the need for addresses, even though service providers may use such when adding customers. The additional customers driving such virtual growth are readily verifiable. The alternative would be to consider virtual equipment (e.g. VM's) as actual technical infrastructure and that would effectively open the justification of unlimited resources by any party without any actual equipment or customer growth. <snip> /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. _______________________________________________ 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.
