Hello Team, I am in support of the concept, however I believe some policy wording changes need to be made, in order to ensure that it does not impact members who have a legitimate business case for leasing IP addresses.
There are businesses who do lease IP resources as part of a service, for example, businesses may also lease subnets smaller than a /24 to customers who may have a business internet service. In circumstances where a resource user requires greater than a /25 (i.e. a /24 or larger) they either need to acquire resources directly from APNIC or through a market transfer. I don't believe it is the intention of this policy to restrict these types of services however under the current wording would technically be in breach of the policy. The policy needs to be worded in a way, that prevents members from leasing IP resources themselves as the only service, without any other services (such as transit) from being supplied. This is generally what organisations may do when they hold resources they no longer require or obtain resources from the registry with the sole intention of leasing them, and provide false or misleading information to acquire them. Should APNIC make a determination that a resource holder is leasing out resources in breach of this policy, then the resource holder needs to either transfer the resources directly to the lessee or return the resources back to APNIC for further delegations to other members/applicants. Regards, Christopher H. _______________________________________________ SIG-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
