[arin-ppml] Support for 2015-5 (Expand permitted out-of-region use of IPv4 space)

[William Herrin]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:36 PM, David Huberman
<David.Huberman at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Ignoring what 2015-5 says and how it's constructed, what is
> your opinion of the fundamental issue here?  Do you think
> network operators should be allowed to take ARIN-issued
> resources and use them anywhere in the world, regardless
> of topology?   In answering this, please understand that
> ARIN's current procedure is "NO".


Hi David,

I think that's the wrong question. I think that's a destructive
question with answers that range from bad to worse.

A better question is: should we have regionally confined resource
pools (and policies) or global resource pools (and policies)?

There was a proposition posted here a while back to the effect that
the regional registries were only supposed to be a local interface to
the global address system. They weren't supposed to diverge in to
distinct governance regimes. Would that be better?

There is extra challenge in developing global policy, but it would in
theory permit the assignments to be used globally without creating any
"flag of convenience" fairness problems. But... is permission to
employ addresses globally worth the cost of regional autonomy?

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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