This discussion has me sooooooooo confused! 
What is up, what is down, what is left, what is right. 
I seem to be hearing, if you want this, you have to hold your mouth just right, 
and then you can't do that. 

None of this discussion has made any sense to me 

Paul McNary 


From: "Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML" <[email protected]> 
To: "John Curran" <[email protected]> 
Cc: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 4:02:00 PM 
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Change of Use and ARIN (was: Re: AFRINIC And The 
Stability Of The Internet Number Registry System) 






On Sep 7, 2021, at 11:03 , John Curran < [ mailto:[email protected] | 
[email protected] ] > wrote: 

On 7 Sep 2021, at 1:34 PM, Owen DeLong < [ mailto:[email protected] | 
[email protected] ] > wrote: 

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We will number X internet connected hosts on our own infrastructure 




That is fine and routinely satisfied. 


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and Y internet connected hosts on our customers’ networks. 

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That’s not considered part of your technical need for your organization's 
network, and would be excluded. 

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I’m talking about in an LIR application, not end user… Try again. 

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The conservation principle an overall principle contained in section 1 – i.e. 
"1. Principles and Goals of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)” 
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As such, the issuance of number resources must be for “ a technical need for 
them in support of operational networks." 

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Right… And an LIR’s customers with operational networks would be such a valid 
technical need regardless of where or how 
that LIR’s customers connected those networks to whatever other networks. What 
am I missing? 


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Would ARIN decline such a request? If so, where in policy is the basis to 
decline such a request? 

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The portion related to another organization’s technical need for number 
resources would be declined, as the conservation principle in NRPM section 1 
requires that ARIN issues number resources to organizations based on their 
_technical need_ in support of operational networks – 

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So how do LIRs work in the ARIN region under this circumstance? 

How does Comcast have so much space if they don’t distribute a lot of it to 
their customers under ARIN policy? 
Same question for AT&T, Verizon, AWS, Microsoft, XO Communications, Savvis, 
Century Link (or whatever they call themselves this week), etc.? 

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They do distribute IP addresses to their customers as a result of the provision 
of their network services. 

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So this is still another organization’s technical need for number resources. 
It’s not the LIR’s need for number resources, 
it’s their customers’ need for those resources. That’s my point. 


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1. Principles and Goals of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 
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1.2. Conservation 
The principle of conservation guarantees sustainability of the Internet through 
efficient utilization of unique number resources. 

Due to the requirement for uniqueness, Internet number resources of each type 
are drawn from a common number space. Conservation of these common number 
spaces requires that Internet number resources be efficiently distributed to 
those organizations who have a technical need for them in support of 
operational networks. 
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If for some reason you’d like the concept of “technical need" for number 
resources to somehow be redefined to encompass your financial desire to satisfy 
the number resource needs of other organizations, then submit a proposal to 
change policy accordingly for consideration by the ARIN community. 

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Nope… I’m fine with current policy, but I don’t think you’ve answered the 
actual question as it appears that you’ve applied end-user criteria to what I 
am terming as an LIR request. 

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Principle applies the same either way. As you noted, there is a way around that 
- provision VPN services with IP address as a component of that service. 

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OK, so as long as GRE tunnels that never actually carry traffic are created as 
a fig leaf to cover the lease, it’s OK and within policy, but without such GRE 
tunnels, you believe it to be a violation of policy. 

Glad to have you on record for this (though still not convinced that’s what the 
policy manual actually says). 

Owen 


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