On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Stephen Sprunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21-Jan-14 21:38, Jimmy Hess wrote: Note that, from what I've been > told, ARIN staff policy is to approve ALL requests unless there is a > specific section of the NPRM that clearly says they can't. They do not > feel they have the discretion to deny a request simply because granting it > would be a Bad Idea(tm). > Well, 4.6.1 is specifically restrictive... "Transactions should only be accepted under this policy if they are in the interests of the community" The fact is, there can be attempts at abuse or misuse outside the intent of any of the rules, that are meant for a constructive purpose. Another example of an abuse, would be an organization making frequent allocation, return, reorganize, and transfer requests, in order to churn IP addresses as quickly as possible: to get fresh batches of non-blacklisted IPs to send spam from. There is no way to write a rule that will differentiate between legitimate reorganizations --- and transfer/return/renumber/reallocate of resources, to facilitate ongoing abuse. ARIN staff may be uncomfortable with the concept of applying discretion, but there will inevitably be situations where policy and the best interests of the community could be seriously harmed by lack of discretion being applied where appropriate. -- -JH
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