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

[Bill Darte]

Hello,
Just a heads up prior to the April Public Policy and Member's Meetings
http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XV/agenda.html
<http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XV/agenda.html> 
There was quite a lot of discussion about Policy Proposal 2004-3 at the
prior meetings in Reston, Oct. 2004.
Much of that discussion revolved around the proposal being 'new' policy when
actually it was a clarification to existing policy and ARIN practice.  As
such, the following is available for your consideration.  Note that the new
wording of the proposal intends to supercede existing wording in the ARIN
Number Resource Policy Manual in sections identified below, but is
consistent with current ARIN practice.
Bill Darte
ARIN AC

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.
Rationale:

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>).