[arin-ppml] Revised: ARIN-2017-4: Remove Reciprocity

[Owen DeLong]

If you have an in-country entity within the AfriNIC region, get your addresses from AfriNIC… Easy, problem solved.

Owen

> On Sep 8, 2017, at 13:04 , David Huberman <daveid at panix.com> wrote:
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> In some countries, data sovereignty laws require all assets to be owned by an in country entity. A best practice for compliance is to register to the in country subsidiary and have that duly registered in the RIR. Doing it this way also gives you preferential treatment under data transport laws in some countries.
> 
> In other countries, to obtain transit of your route announcements, the prefixes must be registered in the local RIR or NIR.   
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Sep 8, 2017, at 3:45 PM, Michael Winters <mwinters at edwardrose.com> wrote:
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>> Serious question, what legal compliance requirements are there to use ARIN addresses in LACNIC or AfriNIC?
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David R Huberman [mailto:daveid at panix.com]
>> Sent: Friday, September 8, 2017 1:27 PM
>> To: William Herrin <bill at herrin.us>
>> Cc: Michael Winters <mwinters at edwardrose.com>; arin-ppml at arin.net
>> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Revised: ARIN-2017-4: Remove Reciprocity
>> 
>>> Parts of Africa choose to starve rather than accept the import of GMO
>>> food products from the U.S. This is not the US's problem, nor should
>>> it be. I believe the correct proverb is, "beggars can't be choosers."
>> 
>> Bill, I framed the root motivation of the draft policy as:
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>> "ARIN-based network operators who are responsible for multi-continent IP networks need to be able to move ARIN-registered numbers from ARIN to LACNIC and AFRINIC for our datacenters in those regions.  This need is to allow us to achieve legal compliance and network engineering goals."
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