[arin-ppml] Fairness of banning IPv4 allocations to somecategoryof organization

joel jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Sat Oct 10 15:27:02 EDT 2009


My mobile phone is a router, also a server, I'll presume for the sake of arguement that it's also a workstation.

Plently of servers don't interact with humans.

Scott Leibrand <scottleibrand at gmail.com> wrote:

>Is a mobile phone a workstation?
>
>Scott
>
>On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:22 AM, James Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM,  <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:
>>> Does anyone have ideas on how to word such a policy, where
>>> to put it in the NRPM, etc.?
>>> --Michael Dillon
>>
>> Perhaps  somewhere like  4.2.7  & / or 4.3.7
>> Thoughts  something along the lines of......   perhaps?
>>
>> Embedded Devices
>>   End-users networks with embedded devices are encouraged to use
>> IPv6 addressing,  or private IP address numbers (see RFC1918).
>>
>> Individual embedded devices may not count towards any more than 20% of
>> the shown utilization for justification of any IPv4 End-User
>> assignment or  ISP reassignment.
>>
>>    An embedded device is any host device which is not a workstation,
>> server, or router.
>>    A workstation is a host that provides an interactive,
>> general-purpose computing service to at least one unique person who
>> physically interacts with hardware attached to that host.
>>    A server is a host that provides a content or communications
>> service and allows at least one unique human member of the general
>> public  (per host) to fully interact with that service.
>>    A  router is a host that provides an  IPv4  network connection
>> service to at least  two unique IPv4 networks,  or one IPv4 network
>> and one IPv6 network,  where each network services an average of at
>> least two unique workstations, servers, or routers.
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