On Oct 9, 2013, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that we must "consider virtual equipment (e.g. VM's) as > actual technical infrastructure". The actual businesses that are being built > on the Internet appear to have outpaced policy here. > > If I host a large computing cloud or storage cloud, I really need to be able > to get additional address space as that cloud grows. There may be no > addresses that are "assigned to a specific customer" or even a "pool of > addresses that are used by specific customers" in the traditional ISP sense. > In fact, I might consider myself an end-user of IP space, not an ISP, and be > attempting to get address space as an end-user. And the growth of the exposed > IP surface of that cloud may or may not be a linear function of the physical > resources I throw at it. In fact, as the physical resources get more > powerful, I would expect not. > ... Congrats, you're an end-user. You get an address block, and when its used, you ask for more and we verify the usage of the prior block. The fact that many, many IPs are assigned to a handful of devices doesn't matter, as long as they are utilized. This is per the NRPM 4.3.6 end-user policies, and works quite well today with ARIN performing verification across if wide variety of technologies, including addresses deployed into virtual infrastructure. Under the end-user policies, this is quite possible, but we're quite likely to ask for additional information in order correlate your recent growth which other metrics. Thanks! /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.
