[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4: RIR Principles

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Thu May 30 13:45:10 EDT 2013


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>> RFC-2050 3.1 says:
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>> "IP addresses are valid as long as the criteria continues to be met."
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> One might construe this statement to directly invalidate existing legacy allocations which would now be in ARIN's policy through this policy.  Others might be worried that this opens the door wider to changing policy to retroactively revoke allocations or assignments by changing "criteria".   Furthermore, I believe this idea is already handled by existing NRPM text and the RSA.
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Whether one construes it that way or not, the reality is that said statement has always applied to resource allocations/assignments even back when it was just kept in Jon Postel's notebook.

As such, I support preserving that statement in the ARIN policy proposal.

Owen

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