Currently leasing is the only reliable way to get IPv4 since EXHAUSTION, in a 
timely manner. 


From: "Fernando Frediani" <[email protected]> 
To: "arin-ppml" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 11:32:01 AM 
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2022-9: Leasing Not Intended 



Hello Scott 

Could you explain better the arguments you are against in this proposal or that 
don't sound valid? 

All this proposal does is to make clear make something clear in the policy 
text. 
If you cannot go to ARIN and justify that you intend to use requested IP 
addresses for simple leasing proposes, to be leased to organization with who 
you don't provide any connectivity services, why would it be an accepted thing 
in any other scenario ? 
IP space is to be used for building Internet infrastructure and to get 
customers connected to the Internet, not to be simply leased from one 
organization pretending to be a RIR to another. 

Unless I misunderstood and you like the idea of leasing and so why you oppose 
this proposal. 

Regards 
Fernando 
On 24/08/2022 12:40, Scott Leibrand wrote: 


Opposed. There is no good reason I am aware of for ARIN to require the bundling 
of IP addressing and connectivity services. The arguments provided in this 
draft policy are not sound or valid ones. 

Scott 


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On 18 August 2022, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-308: 
Leasing Not Intended" as a Draft Policy. 



Draft Policy ARIN-2022-9 is below and can be found at: 



[ https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2022_9/ | 
https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2022_9/ ] 




You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will evaluate 
the discussion to assess the conformance of this draft policy with ARIN's 
Principles of Internet number resource policy as stated in the Policy 
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* Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration 

* Technically Sound 

* Supported by the Community 



The PDP can be found at: 



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Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at: [ 
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Sean Hopkins 

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American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 





Draft Policy ARIN-2022-9: Leasing Not Intended 



Problem Statement: 



“IPv6 Policy (section 6.4.1.) explicitly mention that address space is not a 
property. This is also stated in the RSA (section 7.) for all the Internet 
Number Resources. 



However, with the spirit of the IPv4 allocation policies being the same, there 
is not an equivalent text for IPv4, neither for ASNs. 



Further to that, policies for IPv4 and IPv6 allocations, clearly state that 
allocations are based on justified need and not solely on a predicted customer 
base. Similar text can be found in the section related to Transfers (8.1). 



Consequently, resources not only aren’t a property, but also, aren’t allocated 
for leasing purposes, only for justified need of the resource holder and its 
directly connected customers. 



Therefore, and so that there are no doubts about it, it should be made explicit 
in the NRPM that the Internet Resources should not be leased “per se”, but only 
as part of a direct connectivity service. At the same time, section 6.4.1. 
should be moved to the top of the NRPM (possibly to section 1. “Principles and 
Goals of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)”.” 



Policy statement: 



Actual Text (to be replaced by New Text): 



6.4.1. Address Space Not to be Considered Property 



It is contrary to the goals of this document and is not in the interests of the 
Internet community as a whole for address space to be considered freehold 
property. 



The policies in this document are based upon the understanding that 
globally-unique IPv6 unicast address space is allocated/assigned for use rather 
than owned. 



New Text 



1.5. Internet Number Resources Not to be Considered Property 



It is contrary to the goals of this document and is not in the interests of the 
Internet community as a whole for address space to be considered freehold 
property. 



The policies in this document are based upon the understanding that Internet 
Number Resources are allocated/assigned for use rather than owned. 



ARIN allocate and assign Internet resources in a delegation scheme, with an 
annual validity, renewable as long as the requirements specified by the 
policies in force at the time of renewal are met, and especially the 
justification of the need. 



Therefore, the resources can’t be considered property. 



The justification of the need, generically in the case of addresses, implies 
their need to directly connect customers. Therefore, the leasing of addresses 
is not considered acceptable, nor does it justify the need, if they are not 
part of a set of services based, at least, on direct connectivity. 



Even in cases of networks not connected to the Internet, the leasing of 
addresses is not admissible, since said sites can request direct assignments 
from ARIN and even in the case of IPv4, use private addresses or arrange 
transfers. 



Timetable for implementation: Immediate 



Situation in other Regions: 



In other RIRs, the leasing of addresses is not authorized either and since it 
is not explicit in their policy manuals either, this proposal will be presented 
as well. 



Nothing is currently mentioned in RIPE about this and it is not acceptable as a 
justification of the need. In AFRINIC, APNIC and LACNIC, the staff has 
confirmed that address leasing is not considered as valid for the 
justification. 


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