[ppml] Policy Proposal 2004-3: Global Addresses for Private Network Inter-Connectivity - last call

The ARIN Advisory Council (AC), acting under the provisions of the ARIN
Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process (IRPEP), has reviewed policy
proposal 2004-3: Global Addresses for Private Network Inter-Connectivity
and has determined that there is community consensus in favor of the
proposal to move it to last call. The AC made this determination at
their meeting at the conclusion of the ARIN Public Policy meeting in
April, 2005.  Minutes of the Public Policy Meeting can be found at
http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XV/index.html.  The results of
the AC meeting were reported by the Chair of the AC at the member
meeting.  This report can be found at
http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XV/mem_minutes.html#anchor_4.

The policy proposal text is provided below and is also available at
http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2004_3.html.

Comments are encouraged.  All comments should be provided to
ppml at arin.net. This last call will expire at 12:00 Noon, Eastern Time,
June 1, 2005.

The ARIN Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process can be found at
http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html.

Regards,

Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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Policy Proposal 2004-3: Global Addresses for Private Network
Inter-Connectivity

Policy statement

End-users not currently connected to an ISP and/or not planning to be
connected to the Internet are encouraged to use private IP address
numbers reserved for non-connected networks (see RFC 1918). When
private, non-connected networks require interconnectivity and the
private IP address numbers are ineffective, globally unique addresses
may be requested and used to provide this interconnectivity.

This text supersedes section 4.3.5 Non-connected Networks.

Policy Rationale (if provided)

In order to provide clarification for current ARIN practice concerning
the use of Global Addresses for private network interconnectivity, the
change above to the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual is proposed.

Current wording of Section 4.3.5 Non-connected Networks:

End-users not currently connected to an ISP and/or plan not to be
connected to the Internet are encouraged to use private IP numbers
reserved for non-connected networks (see RFC 1918
</library/rfc/rfc1918.txt>).