There are many customers that have a /24 or more leased from their provider. Claiming that anyone needing a /24 or shorter prefix must go to an RIR or the market is current reality, but not historically true. Lots of older provider assignments of /24 and shorter prefixes exist in the wild and persist in use today.
Owen > On Aug 12, 2023, at 05:12, Christopher H <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] _______________________________________________ SIG-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
