On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
On 9/10/2015 2:40 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
I use my addresses globally and will continue to do so as needed. I've
never needed a policy to tell me I can or can't.
+1
As I've said before, isn't the whole point of the Internet that geography can
become largely irrelevant. Like I can take a disaster hit in California and
spin up the standby VMs that are in London, adjust a little BGP, and keep
rolling... why would where I happen to be using a particular address today be
ARIN's business at all?
Like it or not, current "internal policy" is that your resources used out
of region (like to provide IPs for that London POP so it can be reachable
when its not using your California IPs) don't count as "utilized", and if
you're a US based corp wanting to open a DR POP in London and need IPs
for it, ARIN won't allocate them to you [to be used out of region].
Worse, if you weren't aware of this policy at the time, and have used a
bunch of ARIN space unicast out of region, you may have difficulties
getting approved when applying for more space to be used in-region.
Regardless of how and where Martin uses his ARIN IPs, or what you think is
or isn't ARIN's business, the current "policy" resulting from a very
narrow interpretation of vagueness in the NRPM makes it a PITA for ARIN
members to operate global networks.
I fear it'll be irrelevant before it can be implemented, but I'm in favor
of fixing policy, here and anywhere else needed, to remove the need for
ARIN to "interpret" actual policy in ways that screw the members.
So, just in case I wasn't clear, I'm in favor of 2015-5.
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