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

[Matthew Kaufman]

On 9/28/2013 3:34 AM, John Curran wrote:
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> Bill -
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> As noted earlier, the proposal that was submitted referenced three reasons
> <https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/ARIN_prop_189_orig.html> =
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> 1. The rapid depletion of IPv4 space resulting from the present situation,
> 2. The challenging environment for law enforcement investigations, including
>     the opportunity unscrupulous organizations to manipulate the system and
>     acquire large blocks of ARIN IP address space for nefarious purposes,
> 3. The direct contravention of the Regional Internet Registry system resulting
>     from ARIN assigning resources outside the region and implications for the
>     current model.
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My reading of the language of the proposal is that it would *not* apply 
to the needs justification for 8.3 transfers.

Thus #2 above, for the IPv4 case, is about to become irrelevant, once 
the easiest way to "acquire large blocks of ARIN IP address space for 
nefarious purposes" is to simply buy them on the transfer market.

Matthew Kaufman