[arin-ppml] Support for 2015-5 (Expand permitted out-of-region use of IPv4 space)

Jon Lewis jlewis at lewis.org
Wed Sep 16 01:27:27 EDT 2015


On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, William Herrin wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
>> Are we to wait for a new RIR to incorporate to service the moon if someone
>> wants to put an IPv4 network on the moon thats reachable from earth's IPv4
>> Internet?  It's out of every RIR's region.  "Sorry, you can't take our IPs
>> there."
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> All space vehicles (and airplanes and ships) are in one or another
> terrestrial country's legal jurisdiction. Your moon base would fly the
> flag of a country in one of the RIR's jurisdictions.
>
> Should science fiction slide towards science reality and we start
> having nations on the moon, mars and in the asteroid belt, AFAIK ARIN
> is still the default registry for nations not claimed by another RIR.

So can we get an exception to this rule if we put a US flag sticker on our 
out of region routers?  :)

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