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

[Owen DeLong]

Neither current ARIN policy, nor proposal 2013-6 would preclude that request for addresses, IMHO.

Owen

On Oct 8, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> 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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