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

[Jimmy Hess]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:53 AM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2013, at 5:38 AM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us>
>  wrote:
> > To be clear, ARIN sent the following text (as quoted by Frank) to the
> To provide some insight, however, organizations often reference
>
  NRPM (and assert compliance with the policy therein) when their
>   interpretation is different from that of the staff implementation.
>
>   While staff tries to be true to the language (and the spirit) of
>   number resource policy as adopted, diligent requesters who have
>   a credible claim of compliance to NRPM are approved.
>

WHOA.   That's a thorny issue.   What you are saying is that staff have an
interpretation of policy,
and will tell  an applicant   _no_,   they  are not eligible to receive the
resource X,  according to the staff interpretation.

BUT,  some requestors can choose their own interpretation,  without  past
and future requestors having the benefit of having their request
interpreted to comply in that way?

This seems like inequal treatment.

The problem, is this is application of different rules to different
requestors,
and unfairly favorable treatment to requestors who can hire a large team of
analysts to put together an alternative interpretation favoring the
granting of their request.

What should instead happen,  is  ARIN should consult with the community
first,  before accepting an "alternative credible interpretation,"  AND
 inform  past applicants who may have had requests denied,  that a new
interpretation is being accepted, without any change in policy.



> Thanks!
> /John
>

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-JH
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