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

[Martin Hannigan]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:35 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:25 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> > X. Resource Justification within ARIN Region
> > Organizations requesting Internet number resources from ARIN must
> > provide proof that they (1) are an active business entity legally
> > operating within the ARIN service region, and (2) are operating a
> > network located within the ARIN service region. In addition to meeting
> > all other applicable policy requirements, a plurality of resources
> > requested from ARIN must be justified by technical infrastructure and
> > customers located within the ARIN service region, and any located
> > outside the region must be interconnected to the ARIN service region.
> > The same technical infrastructure or customers cannot be used to justify
> > resources in more than one RIR.
>

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> Instead, focus on the
>  degree to which the equipment on which the ARIN number resources are
> employed is physically present within the ARIN region.
>


The amount of equipment needed to run a network or legitimately utilize
resources is getting smaller, not larger, and is not a good measure of
whether you are a network operator. Or not.


Best,

-M<
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