Wording of the Virtual Webhosting Standards Policy

[Jill Kulpinski]

Hello there,
This whole writing back and forth thing gets very confusing.  At this point,
I feel we need to get some clear suggestions by the people concerned (those
writing in), as to exactly what they want the policy to say.  This way we
can make direct comments on a proposed document and hopefully get something
agreed upon, voted on, and enacted.
Jill

-----Original Message-----
From: sigma at pair.com [mailto:sigma at pair.com]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:05 AM
To: ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: Wording of the Virtual Webhosting Standards Policy



> If a web-hosting organization petitions their upstream for address space
> and is denied based on some inchoate interpretation of an ARIN-published
> recommendation, that is indicative of a much larger problem. The
> organization can either attempt to convince the upstream to assign them
> address space or it can do what would seem to be the smarter choice:
> change upstreams.

I believe this point was raised at the open mike during both previous
meetings.  I'm simply mentioning it again.  The organizations that have to
reallocate space don't appreciate being in an uncertain situation either.

> > It seemed at the meeting that the intent of requiring any reason at all
was
> > so that ARIN could gather data for future use - not to restrict
allocation.
> > This policy was supposed to be scaled back to a recommendation.
> 
> Yes, I too believe it is supposed to be a recommendation, not a strict
> policy. My policy wording does not seem to reflect that belief. Hrm.
> How to reconcile??

Presumably by altering the wording to better correspond to the consensus
reached at the meetings.  I was objecting to the wording primarily on those
grounds.

Kevin