Very good. Thank you Owen for detailing your explanation. This is very helpful.
Brian Jones ARIN Advisory Council (NRPM Working Group) > On Dec 12, 2023, at 2:18 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > ISP is a very ambiguous term which carries a lot of different connotations to > different people, most of which don’t describe the full range of ARIN member > LIRs. > > LIRs include cloud providers, CDNs, certain government entities, colocation > facilities, “eyeball” providers, backbone providers, tunnel/vpn service > providers, SDWAN providers, SAAS providers, etc. > > Sure, most of those could be called an ISP under some definition of the term, > but would be excluded from the term in many other people’s minds. Best to > avoid the quagmire of ambiguity and talk in terms of what ARIN is actually > concerned about, which is the local registration of addresses to other > entities (whether internal, external, or both). As such, yes, I have a strong > belief that LIR is a term better suited to ARIN policy as it is both more > descriptive of the bodies being described and more relatable to the policy > intent. > > Owen > > >> On Dec 12, 2023, at 11:05, Brian Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thank you for the feedback Owen. It seems you have a strong leaning toward >> the LIR term over the term ISP, would you care to tell me more about why you >> feel the term LIR is the better choice? Thank you agin for the valuable >> input and feedback. It is greatly appreciated by myself and the NRPM working >> group. >> >> >> Brian Jones >> ARIN Advisory Council (NRPM Working Group) >> >> >> >>> On Dec 9, 2023, at 5:10 AM, Owen DeLong <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> This is a step in the wrong direction… If you’re going to unify the >>> terminology, ISP->LIR would be the better choice. >> >
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