[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6: Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors - Revised

[John Curran]

On Oct 6, 2013, at 8:31 AM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> You reported that 52 organizations received addresses from ARIN
> although "all or most" of their infrastructure and customers were
> outside the ARIN region.

That is correct.

> You stated that the reported message (demanding certification that the
> infrastructure be in-region) was part of ARIN's procedures throughout
> the time period in which the 52 requests were honored.

Bill -

ARIN's current procedures have requesters "verify that you will be using
the requested number resources within the ARIN region and announcing all 
routing prefixes of the requested space from within the ARIN region."

All 52 requesters verified the above.  There is frequently discussion of 
the term "use in region" (just as raised in Frank Bulk's email).  As noted 
in the policy experience report, the "use" of the addresses within ARIN 
region is often accomplished via nominal hosted infrastructure within the 
ARIN region, despite being driven by customers predominantly outside of 
the ARIN region.  See pages 9 through 14 of the referenced ARIN 31 Policy 
Implementation and Experience Report for details, and do not hesitate to
contact me here (or via jcurran at arin.net directly) if you have questions - 
<https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_31/PDF/monday/nobile_policy.pdf>

We report policy experiences such as this one so that the community can 
consider whether changes to policy language are warranted, and that can
either be to change the intent of the policy, or policy changes to make
clearer the present intent and hence drive better implementation.

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN