[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6: Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors - Revised

[Frank Bulk]

John,

What if Acme Hosting, Inc., located in the Silicon Valley, found a niche
offering virtualized servers for Asian customers who want to have their
Internet-based services hosted more closely to the North American market.  

Acme Hosting and their infrastructure are clearly in the U.S., but their
customers are not in the ARIN region.  

Does the policy, as currently written, preclude Acme Hosting from requesting
more address space as their Asian customer base grows?

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
Behalf Of John Curran
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 10:38 AM
To: William Herrin
Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-6: Allocation of IPv4 and
IPv6 Address Space to Out-of-region Requestors - Revised

<snip>

Under the policy change proposed by 2013-6, we would only consider customers

within the ARIN service region for this purpose, and would provide an
allocation
which they could justify based on that in-region customer demand. The
proposed 
policy change makes clear that customers must be in-region to be considered.

(The present policy does not have such a constraint, hence the approval of 
recent requests where the vast majority of customers are known to be outside

the ARIN region.)

We don't consider virtual "technical infrastructure" for assessing the need 
for addresses, even though service providers may use such when adding
customers.
The additional customers driving such virtual growth are readily verifiable.

The alternative would be to consider virtual equipment (e.g. VM's) as actual

technical infrastructure and that would effectively open the justification
of 
unlimited resources by any party without any actual equipment or customer
growth.

<snip>

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
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