On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. [snip] The end user might physically reside in Asia; however, if their virtual server is being hosted physically in the ARIN region, and the hosting company's offices are in the American region, THEN the user is essentially "coming into the ARIN region" to do business. I would make the argument, that these are Asia-based people Doing business in the US, by virtually coming and buying product from a US-based company; they might not be taking a plane trip into the US to setup the account, but they are calling a US phone number, US-based e-mail address, or visiting a US-based website. So while their nationality is Asian, they may in fact be "US customers" If the customer is doing business in the ARIN region; then ARIN should not be examining their nationality too deeply, as long as their full verifiable details are gathered and available for dissemination by ARIN's auditors. -- -JH
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